1 Samuel 14:14 - Printer Friendly

ESV: And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.

NIV: In that first attack Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed some twenty men in an area of about half an acre.

NASB: Now that first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer inflicted was about twenty men within about half a furrow in an acre of land.

CSB: In that first assault Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about twenty men in a half-acre field.

NLT: They killed some twenty men in all, and their bodies were scattered over about half an acre.

KJV: And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

NKJV: That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armorbearer made was about twenty men within about half an acre of land.

First Samuel introduces the key figures who led Israel after the era of the judges. The books of 1 and 2 Samuel were originally part of a single text, split in certain translations shortly before the birth of Christ. Some of the Bible’s most famous characters are depicted in this book. These including the prophet Samuel, Israel’s first king, Saul, her greatest king, David, and other famous names such as Goliath and Jonathan. By the end of this book, Saul has fallen; the book of 2 Samuel begins with David’s ascension to the throne.

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