1 Samuel 14:32

What does 1 Samuel 14:32 mean?

A plain-English look at 1 Samuel 14:32 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And 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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and 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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and the people make unto the spoil, and take sheep, and oxen, and sons of the herd, and slaughter on the earth, and the people eat with the blood.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And falling upon the spoils, they took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people ate them with the blood.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And the people fell on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate [them] with the blood.

Context

v.31And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint;

v.32This passage

v.33Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Jehovah, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have dealt treacherously: roll a great stone unto me this day.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 9:4

    But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

  • 1 Samuel 15:19

    Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of Jehovah, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah?

  • Leviticus 3:17

    It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

  • Acts 15:29

    that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

  • Deuteronomy 12:16

    Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

  • Deuteronomy 12:23

    Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.

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