In Context

32 and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and 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 Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood.| He said, |You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me this day!|

34 Saul said, |Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, 'Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh 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 Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.

36 Saul said, |Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.| They said, |Do whatever seems good to you.| Then the priest said, |Let us 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.

1 Samuel 14:35 in Other Translations