Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 14:32

And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew [them] on the ground: and the people did eat [them] with the blood.

32. the people did eat them with the blood ] As soon as it was evening, the fasting people flew upon the spoil to satisfy their hunger, and in doing so transgressed the primeval prohibition (Gen 9:4), which was re-enacted in the Mosaic law (Lev 17:10-14), and observed in the early days of the Christian Church (Act 15:20).

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 32. The people did eat them with the blood.] They were faint through hunger, and did not take time to bleed the cattle on which they fed. This was another bad effect of Saul’s rash adjuration.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

The people flew upon the spoil, to wit, at evening, when the time prefixed by Saul was expired.

With the blood; not having patience to tarry till the blood was perfectly gone out of them, as they should have done. See Gen 9:4; Lev 17:14; Deu 12:16. So they who seemed to make conscience of the kings commandment for fear of the curse, make no scruple of transgressing Gods command.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

And the people flew upon the spoil,…. Like a swift and ravenous bird, as the eagle, and which seems to have its name in Greek from this word, see Isa 46:11. When the evening was come, and they were free from the oath of Saul, and being extremely hungry, faint, and weary, they were even ravenous for food and with the greatest haste and eagerness laid hold on what came first to hand:

and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew [them] on the ground; and there they lay in their blood, which in such a position would not run out freely as when slain and hang up:

and the people did eat them with the blood; they were so hungry they could not stay the dressing of them, but ate them raw with the blood in them, not being squeezed or drained out, at least not half boiled or roasted. Some of the Jewish Rabbins a are of opinion

a See Jarchi in loc.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(32) And the people flew upon the spoil . . . No doubt, had the men of Israel not been so faint for want of food, and utterly weary, many more of the Philistine host would have fallen: as it was, vast spoil was left behind in the hurried flight; but it was the beasts that the conquerors greedily seized, their hunger was so great. The moment that the day, with its enforced fast, was over, they flew, like Mussulmans at sunset during the fast of Ramazan, upon the captured cattle, and devoured them, even to the brutal neglect of the Law forbidding the eating of flesh which contained blood.Stanley. (See Lev. 17:10-14; Lev. 19:26.)

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

32. The people flew upon the spoil, and did eat with the blood This was another unfortunate result of Saul’s hasty oath. So voracious did the people become by the evening time that, in their haste to satisfy their hunger, they waited not for proper dressing and cooking, but ate the sheep and oxen with the blood, thus violating an oft-repeated commandment of the law. See marginal references. The reading of the Keri , from , or , to fly upon, after the analogy of 1Sa 15:19, is to be preferred before of the Kethib, for gives in this connexion, no good sense.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1Sa 14:32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew [them] on the ground: and the people did eat [them] with the blood.

Ver. 32. And the people flew upon the spoil. ] Hard hunger, which driveth the wolf out of the wood and breaketh through stone walls, as we say, made them impatient, a when once the evening was come, that they might do it with safety of their lives.

And the people did eat them with the blood. ] And so with the hazard of their souls, because they did it against an express law of God. Lev 17:14 Deu 12:16 ; Deu 15:23 Pain of death prevailed more with them than fear of hell.

a Praefestinatione et fame expectare nequibant. – Cajetan.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)