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1 Samuel 14:9
1 Samuel 14:9 is verse 9 of 1 Samuel chapter 14, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If they say, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.
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.
World English Bible
If they say this to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’ then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them.
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1 Samuel 14:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 His armor-bearer replied, “Do all that is in your heart. Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”
8 “Very well,” said Jonathan, “we will cross over toward these men and show ourselves to them.
9 If they say, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stay where we are and will not go up to them.
10 But 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.”
11 So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 24:13Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
Genesis 24:14Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
Judges 6:36Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,
Judges 6:37then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
Judges 6:38And that is what happened. When Gideon arose the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.
Judges 6:39Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.”
Judges 6:40And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.