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42And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
1 Samuel 14:42 —
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-46)Here is, I. Saul’s boasting against the Philistines. He proposed, as soon as his soldiers had got their suppers, to pursue them all night, and not leave a man of them , 1 Sam. 14:36. Here he showed much zeal, but little discretion; for his army, thus fatigued, could as ill spare a night’s sleep as a meal’s meat. But it is common for rash and foolish men to consider nobody but themselves, and, so t…
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