King James Version
1 Samuel 14:23 in the King James Version says “So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.”
1 Samuel 14:23 · KJV
Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.
Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.
And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“saved”
H3467properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e., (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor
“So the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“that day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“and the battle”
H4421a battle (i.e., the engagement); generally, war (i.e., war-fare)
“passed over”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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