1 Samuel 14:38
Good News Translation
Then Saul said to the leaders of the people, "Come here and find out what sin was committed today.

New Revised Standard Version
Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the people; and let us find out how this sin has arisen today.

Contemporary English Version
Saul called his army officers together and said, "We have to find out what sin has kept God from answering.

New American Bible
“All officers of the army,” Saul announced, “come forward. Find out how this sin was committed today.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people: and know, and see by whom this sin hath happened to day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people: and know, and see by whom this sin hath happened to day.

Draw ye near

1 Samuel 10:19,20 But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you out of all your evils and your tribulations: and you have said: Nay: but set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your tribes, and by your families. . . .

Joshua 7:14 And you shall come in the morning, every one by your tribes: and what tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by its kindreds, and the kindred by its houses and tho house by the men.

chief [heb] corners

Numbers 24:17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not near. A STAR SHALL RISE out of Jacob and a sceptre shall spring up from Israel: and shall strike the chiefs of Moab, and shall waste all the children of Seth

Judges 20:2 And all the chiefs of the people, and all the tribes of Israel, met together in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen fit for war.

2 Samuel 18:3 And the people answered: Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not much mind us: or if half of us should fall, they will not greatly care: for thou alone art accounted for ten thousand: it is better therefore that thou shouldst be in the city to succour us.

Psalm 47:9 The princes of the people are gathered together, with the God of Abraham: for the strong gods of the earth are exceedingly exalted.

Zechariah 10:4 Out of him shall come forth the corner, out of him the pin, out of him the bow of battle, out of him every exacter together.

Matthew 21:42 Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes.

Ephesians 2:20 Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

Context
The People Save Jonathan
37And Saul consulted the Lord: Shall I pursue after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he answered him not that day. 38And Saul said: Bring hither all the corners of the people: and know, and see by whom this sin hath happened to day.39As the Lord liveth, who is the Saviour of Israel, if it was done by Jonathan, my son, he shall surely die. In this none of the people gainsayed him.…
Cross References
Joshua 7:11
Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hid it among their goods.

Joshua 7:12
Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness.

Joshua 7:15
And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he shall be burnt with fire, with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel.

1 Samuel 10:19
But you this day have rejected your God, who only hath saved you out of all your evils and your tribulations: and you have said: Nay: but set a king over us. Now therefore stand before the Lord by your tribes, and by your families.

1 Samuel 10:20
And Samuel brought to him all the tribes of Israel, and the lot fell on the tribe of Benjamin.

1 Samuel 14:37
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