32. and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
33. Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord, in that they eat meat with the blood.”He said, “You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today!”
34. Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, ‘Every man bring me here his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don’t sin against the Lord in eating meat with the blood.’” All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
35. Saul built an altar to the Lord. This was the first altar that he built to the Lord.
36. Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light, and let’s not leave a man of them.”They said, “Do whatever seems good to you.”Then the priest said, “Let’s draw near here to God.”
37. Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.
38. Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been today.
39. For, as the Lord lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.