1 Samuel 14
14:1And came to pass a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the servant-lad carrying his weapons, Come, for we should pass over unto the support camp of the Philistines, the one on that other side; but he did not report to his father.
14:2And Saul settled upon the hill under the pomegranate, the one in Migron. And the people, the one with him, was about six hundred men.
14:3And Ahijah son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas, son of Eli the priest of the lord in Shiloh was carrying the ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan was gone.
14:4And in the midst of the ford of which Jonathan sought to pass over into the support camp of the Philistines was an extremity rock from here and an extremity rock from there; the name given to the one was Bozez, and the name given to the other was Seneh.
14:5The one extremity from the north was going to Michmash, and the other extremity from the south was going to Gibeah.
14:6And Jonathan said to the servant-lad carrying his weapons, Come, and we should pass over into the support camp of these uncircumcised, if perchance the lord may commit to us; for the lord is not holding back to deliver by many or by few.
14:7And the one carrying his weapons said to him, You do all what ever your heart should will, turn yourself! Behold, I am with you. As your heart my heart.
14:8And Jonathan said, Behold, we pass over to the men, and we will roll down upon them.
14:9If thus they should say to us, Abstain there until whenever we should approach to you. Then we shall stand by ourselves, and in no way shall we ascend unto them.
14:10And If thus they should say to us, Ascend to us! then we will ascend, for the lord has delivered them into our hands. This will be to us the sign.
14:11And they entered both unto the support camp of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth from out of their burrows where they hide there.
14:12And the men of the support camp responded to Jonathan and to the one carrying his weapons, and they say, Ascend to us! and we will make known to you a thing. And Jonathan said to the one carrying his weapons, You ascend after me! for the lord has delivered them into the hands of Israel.
14:13And Jonathan ascended upon his hands and upon his feet, and the one carrying his weapons after him. And they looked upon the person of Jonathan, and he struck among them, and the one carrying his weapons gave over after him.
14:14And came to pass the first beating which Jonathan struck and the one carrying his weapons, was about twenty men by arrows, and by rock slinging, and by pebbles of the plain.
14:15And came to pass a change of state in the camp, and in the field. And all the people, the one in the support camp, and the ones being utterly destroyed, even they were startled. And the land was distraught, and there took place a change of state because of the lord.
14:16And the watchmen of Saul beheld in Gibeah of Benjamin. And behold, the camp was disturbed on this side and that side.
14:17And Saul said to the people with him, You number yourselves indeed, and see who has gone out from us! And they numbered. And behold, Jonathan was not found and the one carrying his weapons.
14:18And Saul said to Ahijah, Bring the ephod! for the ark of God was in that day before Israel
14:19And it came to pass as Saul spoke to the priest, that the sound in the camp of the Philistines went out going louder, and it multiplied. And Saul said to the priest, Gather together your hands!
14:20And Saul ascended, and all the people with him, and they came unto the battle. And behold, every man's broadsword was upon his neighbor, and an exceedingly great confusion.
14:21And the servants being yesterday and the third day before with the Philistines, the ones ascending into the camp, turned themselves also to be with Israel, of the ones with Saul and Jonathan.
14:22And every man of Israel, the ones hiding in mount Ephraim, heard that the Philistines have fled. And they joined together also themselves after them to battle. And the lord delivered Israel in that day. And the war went through Beth-aven. And all the people being with Saul were about ten thousand men.
14:23And the war was dispersing into every city in mount Ephraim.
14:24And Saul knew not through great ignorance in that day, and he curses the people, saying, Accursed is the man who shall eat bread until evening -- so I will punish for my enemy. And not any of the people tasted bread, and all the land went unto Grove.
14:25And at Grove was an apiary by the face of the field.
14:26And the people entered into the apiary, and behold, honey went forth. And there was not the one turning his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath of the lord.
14:27And Jonathan did not hear in the binding the people by an oath by his father. And he stretched out the tip of his staff, of the one in his hand, and he dipped it into the honeycomb of the honey, and he returned his hand to his mouth, and his eyes looked up.
14:28And one of the people responded and said, By an oath your father bound the people, saying, Accursed be the man who shall eat bread today; and the people were faint.
14:29And Jonathan knew, and said, My father rids the land; for behold my eyes see now that I tasted a little something of this honey.
14:30But that if also the people in eating ate today of the spoils of their enemies which they found, now even greater would have been the calamity among the Philistines.
14:31And he struck in that day of the Philistines many in Michmash, and the people tired exceedingly.
14:32And the people advanced unto the spoils. And the people took flocks, and herds, and offspring of oxen, and slew them upon the ground, and the people ate them with the blood.
14:33And they reported to Saul, saying, the people sin against the lord, to eat with the blood. And Saul said, You sinned. Roll indeed to me here a great stone.
14:34And Saul said, Be dispersed among the people! And tell them, Bring here each his calf, and each his sheep, and slay upon this stone and eat! and in no way should they sin against the lord to eat with the blood. And all the people brought each the thing in his hand in the night, and they slew there.
14:35And Saul built to the lord an altar; in this Saul began to build an altar to the lord.
14:36And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines this night, and we shall tear them into pieces until it should illuminate in the morning; and we should not leave behind among them a man. And they said, All that is good before you, you do! And the priest said, We should come forward here to God.
14:37And Saul asked God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? Shall you deliver them into the hands of Israel? And he did not answer him in that day.
14:38And Saul said, Bring here all the corners of Israel, and know and behold by whom this sin has taken place today!
14:39For as the lord lives, the one delivering Israel, that if the answer be against Jonathan my son, to death he shall die. And there was no one answering of all the people.
14:40And he said to every man of Israel, You will be for one part, and I and Jonathan my son will be for one part. And the people said to Saul, Do the good thing before you!
14:41And Saul said, O lord God of Israel, give manifestations! And Saul was chosen by lot and Jonathan, and the people went forth free.
14:42And Saul said, Throw the lot between me and between Jonathan my son, whomever the lord should choose by lot let him die! And they threw lots between him and between Jonathan, and Jonathan was chosen by lot.
14:43And Saul said to Jonathan, Report to me what you have done! And Jonathan reported to him, saying, In tasting, I tasted with the tip of the staff, the one in my hand, a little honey; and behold, I die.
14:44And Saul said to him, Thus God do to me, and thus add yet again, that in death Jonathan shall die today.
14:45And the people said to Saul, Shall today the one executing this great deliverance in Israel die to death? Kindness, as lives the lord, there shall not fall of the hair of his head upon the ground, for the mercy of God was performed in this day. And the people prayed for Jonathan in that day, and he did not die.
14:46And Saul ascended from going after the Philistines. And the Philistines went forth unto their place.
14:47And Saul obtained by lot to reign over Israel. And he waged war round about with all his enemies -- against Moab, and against the sons of Ammon, and against the sons of Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he was delivered.
14:48And he acted powerfully, and he struck Amalek, and he delivered Israel from out of the hand of the ones trampling him.
14:49And the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters -- the name of the first-born was Merab, and the name of the second was Michal.
14:50And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name to his commander-in-chief was Abner son of Ner, son of a member of the family of Saul.
14:51And Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner son of of Abiel.
14:52And the war was strong against the Philistines all the days of Saul. And Saul in beholding any mighty man, and any man being a son of power, that he gathered them to himself.