Discovery Box1 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 Samuel 14:31
Context14:31 On that day the army struck down the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon, and they became very 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.
