KJV King James Version
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
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1 Samuel 14:31
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
WEB World English Bible
They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
ASV American Standard Version
And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And they smite on that day among the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people are very weary,
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 14
28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food this day. And the people were faint.
29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew [them] on the ground: and the people did eat [them] with the blood.
33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay [them] here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew [them] there.
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