OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 14:36

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Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light. Let’s not leave a man of them.” They said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” Then the priest said, “Let’s draw near here to God.”

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Verse 36. God, to consult him, whether the enterprise met with his approbation. Saul is too eager to follow his own prudence. Bible.—He would not before wait for God’s answer; (verse 19) now he can get none. Worthington.

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