1 Samuel 14:9

If they say to us, Keep quiet where you are till we come to you; then we will keep our places and not go up to them.

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In The King James Version

If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.

In Context

8Then Jonathan said, Now we will go over to these men and let them see us.

10But if they say, Come up to us; then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hands: and this will be the sign to us.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:13See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 14:2-16

Jonathan Smites the Philistines. ( b. c. 1067.) 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. 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; 3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the… Read the whole commentary →

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