1 Samuel 14:28

14:28 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

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

[14:28]  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.