Old Testament

1 Samuel 14:41
41So Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, ˻“Why have you not answered your servant today? If the fault is in me or my son Jonathan, respond with Urim, but if the fault is with the men of Israel,˼[] respond with Thummim.”
Then Jonathan and Saul were chosen, and the people were not chosen.

Footnotes

  • 14:41 The words in the half-brackets above Why have you not answered your servant today? If the fault is in me or my son Jonathan, respond with Urim, but if the fault is with the men of Israel, are not in the Hebrew text but are present in the Greek Old Testament. They give a clearer statement of Saul's request. The possible accidental omission from the Hebrew text may have been triggered by the repetition of the word Israel.