1st Chronicles Chapter 10 verse 14 Holy Bible
and inquired not of Jehovah: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
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And not to the Lord: for this reason, he put him to death and gave the kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.
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and he asked not counsel of Jehovah; therefore he slew him, and transferred the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.
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And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
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And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.
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and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.
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and he inquired not at Jehovah, and He putteth him to death, and turneth round the kingdom to David son of Jesse.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - And inquired not of the Lord. Saul seems to have, in point of fact, inquired in some sense (1 Samuel 14:37; 1 Samuel 28:5, 6, 15). But the probable meaning is that he did not inquire in the first instance (see vers. 3, 4); and when he did inquire, he did not await the reply solely and exclusively of Jehovah. Therefore he slew him (so see 1 Chronicles 2:3). David the son of Jesse. The compiler, having heretofore given so scrupulously whatever of genealogical fact he could, is now careful to use it. And he identifies the future chief hero of his history as him who had already been instanced (1 Chronicles 2:15), "son of Jesse."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) And enquired not of the Lord.--Saul had, in fact, enquired of Jehovah before resorting to the witch of En-dor, "but the Lord answered him not, neither by the dreams, nor by the Urim, nor by the prophets" (1Samuel 28:6). We shall not be reading a meaning of our own into the text if we say that Saul's natural impatience (1Samuel 13:13) on this occasion betrayed him again; he at once despaired of help from his God, instead of seeking it with self-humiliation and penitence. His character is consistently drawn throughout the history. The sin that ruined the first king was essentially that which led to the final ruin of the nation, viz., unfaithfulness to the covenant-God. The same word characterises both. (Comp. 1Chronicles 10:13 with 1Chronicles 5:25; 1Chronicles 9:1.)Therefore he slew him.--God acts through the instrumentality of His creatures. In this case He employed the Philistines, and the suicidal hand of Saul himself; just as He employed the Assyrian conquerors of a later age to be the scourge of guilty peoples (Isaiah 10:5-15), and raised up Cyrus to be His servant, who should fulfil all His pleasure (Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:1-13). . . .
