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1 Samuel 14

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52 verses in KJV · 280 outgoing cross-reference links

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Opening verses of 1 Samuel 14 (KJV)

14:1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that [is] on the other side. But he told not his father.

14:2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men;

14:3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

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Historical / attribution context

Traditional writer attribution: Samuel

Approximate study chronology: c. 1087 BC

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