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1 Samuel 14:30

30 How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found. For now the defeat among the Philistines has not been great.”

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1 Samuel 14:30 — The New International Version (NIV)

30 How much better it would have been if the men had eaten today some of the plunder they took from their enemies. Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been even greater?”

1 Samuel 14:30 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?

1 Samuel 14:30 — New Living Translation (NLT)

30 If the men had been allowed to eat freely from the food they found among our enemies, think how many more Philistines we could have killed!”

1 Samuel 14:30 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

30 How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now would there not have been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?”

1 Samuel 14:30 — New Century Version (NCV)

30 It would have been much better for the men to eat the food they took from their enemies today. We could have killed many more Philistines!”

1 Samuel 14:30 — American Standard Version (ASV)

30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now hath there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.

1 Samuel 14:30 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

30 How much more, if the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for would there not now have been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?

1 Samuel 14:30 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

30 If only the troops had eaten some of the enemies’ food, which they found today. We would have killed more Philistines.” 

1 Samuel 14:30 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

30 How much better if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies! Then the slaughter of the Philistines would have been much greater.”

1 Samuel 14:30 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

30 How much better if today the troops had eaten freely of the spoil taken from their enemies; for now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great.”

1 Samuel 14:30 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

30 How much more could have been done if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder of their enemies that they had found! For now the loss among the Philistines is not great.”

1 Samuel 14:30 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

30 Our soldiers took food from their enemies today. Suppose they had eaten some of it. How much better off they would have been! Even more Philistines would have been killed.”

1 Samuel 14:30 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

30 How much more, if only the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great.”


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