1 Samuel 14:9

If they say, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stay where we are and will 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

8“Very well,” said Jonathan, “we will cross over toward these men and show ourselves to them.

10But if they say, ‘Come on up,’ then we will go up, because this will be our sign that the LORD has delivered them into our hands.”

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Cross References

Genesis 24:13Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming 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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