Discovery Box1 Samuel 14:24 
ContextJonathan Violates Saul’s Oath
14:24 Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath: “Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.
1 Samuel 14:28
Context14:28 Then someone from the army informed him, “Your father put the army under a strict oath 1 saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food today!’ That is why the army is tired.”
1 tn Heb “your father surely put the army under an oath.” The infinitive absolute is used before the finite verb to emphasize the solemn nature of the oath.
