SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:41
Entonces dijo Saúl al SEÑOR Dios de Israel: Da perfección. Y fueron tomados Jonatán y Saúl, y el pueblo salió libre .
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 14:41
Verse 41. Lord God of Israel, Give a perfect lot.] Both the Vulgate and Septuagint add much to this verse: And Saul said to the Lord God of Israel, Lord God of Israel, give judgment. Why is it that thou hast not answered thy servant to-day? If the iniquity be in me, or Jonathan my son, make it manifest. Or if this iniquity be in thy people, give sanctification.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 41. Therefore Saul said to the Lord God of Israel , etc.] After the division was made between him and his son on one side, and the people of Israel on the other, and everything was ready for the drawing of the lot; Saul put up to God the following petition, as knowing that though the lot is cast into the lap, the disposing of it is of the Lord: give a perfect lot ; or man, let it fall upon the guilty person, and let the innocent go free; the Targum is, “cause it to come in truth;” let truth and righteousness take place; let the right man be found out, and taken; the petition seems to be too arrogant and presumptuous, and insinuates as if the Lord did not always dispose the lot aright: and Saul and Jonathan were taken ; the lot being cast, it fell upon them: but the people escaped ; from the lot, and appeared to be innocent, clear of any blame; so that it was not the sin they had been guilty of, in eating flesh with the blood, which was the cause that no answer was returned.
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
ויאמר 559 שׁאול 7586 אל 413 יהוה 3068 אלהי 430 ישׂראל 3478 הבה 3051 תמים 8549 וילכד 3920 יונתן 3129 ושׁאול 7586 והעם 5971 יצאו׃ 3318
