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## 1 Samuel 14:37-39 in Context (Verses 34–42 KJV)
 
 [34 ](/kjv/1-samuel/14/34) And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay *them* here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew *them* there.*
 
 [35 ](/kjv/1-samuel/14/35) And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.*
 
 [36 ](/kjv/1-samuel/14/36) ¶ And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
 
 [37 ](/kjv/1-samuel/14/37) And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.
 
 [38 ](/kjv/1-samuel/14/38) And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.*
 
 [39 ](/kjv/1-samuel/14/39) For, *as* the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But *there was* not a man among all the people *that* answered him.
 
 [40 ](/kjv/1-samuel/14/40) Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
 
 [41 ](/kjv/1-samuel/14/41) Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect *lot*. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.**
 
 [42 ](/kjv/1-samuel/14/42) And Saul said, Cast *lots* between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
 
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