32And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
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Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. …
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-35)We have here an account of the distress of the children of Israel, even in the day of their triumphs. Such alloys are all present joys subject to. And such obstructions does many a good cause meet with, even when it seems most prosperous, through the mismanagement of instruments. I. Saul forbade the people, under the penalty of a curse, to taste any food that day, 1 Sam. 14:24. Here we will suppos…
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