35. And Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar he built to the Lord.
36. Then Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night and seize and plunder them until daylight, 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. And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You deliver them into the hand of Israel? But He did not answer him that day.
38. Then Saul said, Draw near, all the chiefs of the people, and let us see how this sin [causing God's silence] arose today.
39. For as the Lord lives, Who delivers Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But not a man among all the people answered him.