SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:37
Y Saúl consultó a Dios: ¿Descenderé tras los filisteos? ¿Los entregarás en mano de Israel? Mas el SEÑOR no le dio respuesta aquel día.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 14:37
Verse 37. He answered him not that day.] Why was this answer delayed? Surely Jonathan's eating the honey was no sin. This could not have excited God's displeasure. And yet the lot found out Jonathan! But did this argue that he had incurred guilt in the sight of God? I answer: It did not; for Jonathan was delivered, by the authority of the people, from his father's rash curse; no propitiation is offered for his supposed transgression to induce God to pardon it; nor do we find any displeasure of God manifested on the occasion. See below.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 37. And Saul asked counsel of God , etc.] He agreed to the motion of the high priest, and asked counsel by Urim and Thummim; the Targum is, as before, “inquired by the Word of the Lord:” shall I go down after the Philistines ? pursue after them in their flight to their own country, which, lying to the sea, was a descent: wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel ? what remain of them, otherwise a victory over them was obtained: but he answered him not that day ; no answer was returned by Urim and Thummim, so that he was left in suspense whether he should pursue or no; the Targum is, “he received not his prayer that day;” this was treating him in a righteous manner; since he would not stay for an answer from the Lord, ( 1 Samuel 14:19), the Lord now will not give him any; though the principal view was, that he might take the step he did.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 36-46 - If God turns away our prayer, we have reason to suspect it is for some sin harboured in our hearts, which we should find out, that we may pu it away, and put it to death. We should always first suspect an examine ourselves; but an unhumbled heart suspects every other person and looks every where but at home for the sinful cause of calamity Jonathan was discovered to be the offender. Those most indulgent to their own sins are most severe upon others; those who most disregar God's authority, are most impatient when their own commands ar slighted. Such as cast abroad curses, endanger themselves and their families. What do we observe in the whole of Saul's behaviour on thi occasion, but an impetuous, proud, malignant, impious disposition? An do we not in every instance perceive that man, left to himself, betray the depravity of his nature, and is enslaved to the basest tempers.
Original Hebrew
וישׁאל 7592 שׁאול 7586 באלהים 430 הארד 3381 אחרי 310 פלשׁתים 6430 התתנם 5414 ביד 3027 ישׂראל 3478 ולא 3808 ענהו 6030 ביום 3117 ההוא׃ 1931
