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1 Samuel 14:34-38

1 Samuel 14:34

Then Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, ‘Each one of you bring me his ox or his sheep, and slaughter it here and eat; and do not sin against the Lord by eating it with the blood.’ ” So all the people brought them that night, each one his ox with him, and they slaughtered them there.

1 Samuel 14:35

And Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.

1 Samuel 14:36

Then Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night and take plunder among them until the morning light, and let’s not leave a man among them alive.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” So the priest said, “Let’s approach God here.”

1 Samuel 14:37

So Saul inquired of God: “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You hand them over to Israel?” But He did not answer him on that day.

1 Samuel 14:38

Then Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the people, and investigate and see how this sin has happened today.