1 Samuel 14:9

If they shall speak thus to us: Stay till we come to you: let us stand still in our place, and not go up to them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

8And Jonathan said: Behold we will go over to these men. And when we shall be seen by them,

10But if they shall say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the Lord hath delivered them into our hands, this shall be a sign unto us.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:13Behold I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city will come out to draw 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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