1 Samuel 14:30 - The Scriptures 2009

³⁰ “How much better if the people had well eaten today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For then, would not the slaughter among the Philistines have been greater?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ How much better if the men had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now the slaughter of the Philistines has not been great.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now hath there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.

Common English Bible

³⁰ It would have been even better if the troops had eaten some of their enemies’ plunder today when they found it! But now the Philistine defeat isn’t as thorough as it might have been.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ How much more so, if the people had eaten from the plunder that they find with their enemies? Would not a greater slaughter have been accomplished among the Philistines?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ How much more if the people had eaten of the prey of their enemies, which they found? Had there not been made a greater slaughter among the Philistines?

1 Samuel 14:30 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:18

Wisdom is better than weapons of conflict, but one sinner destroys much good.

1 Samuel 14:29

And Yonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Now see how my eyes lit up when I tasted a little of this honey.

1 Samuel 14:31

And they struck the Philistines that day from Miḵmash to Ayalon. So the people were very weary,