1Sa 14 | EngLXX | STEP | And when a certain day arrived, Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man that borehis armor, Come, and let us go over to Messab of the Philistines that is on the other side yonder; buthe told not his father.

1 Samuel 14

1 And when a certain day arrived, Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man that borehis armor, Come, and let us go over to Messab of the Philistines that is on the other side yonder; buthe told not his father. 2 And Saul sat on the top of the hill under the pomegranate tree that is in Magdon, andthere were with him about six hundred men. 3 And Achia son of Achitob, the brother of Jochabed the son of Phinees, the son of Heli,was the priest of God in Selom wearing an ephod: and the people knew not that Jonathan wasgone. 4 And in the midst of the passage whereby Jonathan sought to pass over to the encampmentof the Philistines, there was both a sharp rock on this side, and a sharp rock on the other side: thename of the onewas Bases, and the name of the other Senna. 5 The one waywas northward to one coming to Machmas, and the other waywas southward to one coming to Gabae. 6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, let us go over to Messabof these uncircumcised, ifperhaps the Lord may do something for us; for the Lord is not straitened to save by many orby few. 7 And his armor-bearer said to him, Do all that your heart inclines toward: behold, Iam with you, my heartis as your heart. 8 And Jonathan said, Behold, we will go over to the men, and will come down suddenly uponthem. 9 If they should say thus to us, Stand aloof there until we shall send you word; then wewill stand still by ourselves, and will not go up against them. 10 But if they should say thus to us, Come up to us; then will we go up, for the Lord has deliveredthem into our hands; thisshall be a sign to us. 11 And they both went in to Messab of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, Behold,the Hebrews come forth out of their Caves, where they had hidden themselves. 12 And the men of Messab answered Jonathan and his armor-bearer, and said, Come up to us,and we will show you a thing: and Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, Come up after me, for the Lord hasdelivered them into the hands of Israel. 13 And Jonathan went up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer with him; and they lookedon the face of Jonathan, and he struck them, and his armor-bearer did strikethem after him. 14 And the first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor-bearer effected was twenty men,with darts and slings, and pebbles of the field. 15 And there was dismay in the camp, and in the field; and all the people in Messab, andthe spoilers were amazed; and they would not act, and the land was terror-struck, and there was dismayfrom the lord. 16 And the watchmen of Saul [*]saw in Gabaa of Benjamin, and, behold, the army was throwninto confusion on every side. 17 And Saul said to the people with him, Number yourselves now, and see who has gone outfrom you: and they numbered themselves, and behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not found. 18 And Saul said to Achia, Bring the ephod; for he wore the ephod in that day before Israel. 19 And it came to pass while Saul was speaking to the priest, that the sound in the campof the Philistines continued to increase greatly; and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hands. 20 And Saul went up and all the people that were with him, and they come to the battle:and, behold,every man's sword was against his neighbor, a very great confusion. 21 And the servants who had been before with the Philistines, who had gone up to the army,turned themselves also to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. 22 And all the Israelites who were hidden in mount Ephraim heard also that the Philistinesfled; and they also gather themselves after them to battle: and the Lord saved Israel in that day; andthe war passed through Bamoth; and all the people with Saul were about ten thousand men. 23 And the battle extended itself to every city in the mount Ephraim. 24 And Saul committed a great trespass of ignorance in that day, and he lays a curse onthe people, saying, Cursedis the man who shall eat bread before the evening; so I will avenge myself on my enemy: andnone of the people tasted bread, though all the land was dining. 25 And Jaal was a wood abounding in swarms of bees on the face of the ground. 26 And the people went into the place of the bees, and, behold, they continued speaking;and, behold, there was none that put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath of the Lord. 27 And Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people; and he reached forth theend of the staff that was in his hand, an dipped it into the honeycomb, and returned his hand to his mouth,and his eyes recovered their sight. 28 And one of the people answered and said, Your father solemnly adjured the people, saying,Cursedis the man who shall eat bread today. And the people were very faint, 29 and Jonathan knew it, and said, My father has destroyed the land: see how my eyes havereceived sightnow that I have tasted a little of this honey. 30 Surely if the people had this day eaten freely of the spoils of their enemies which theyfound, the slaughter among the Philistines would have been greater. 31 And on that day he struck some of the Philistines in Machmas; and the people were veryweary. 32 And the people turned to the spoil; and the people took flocks, and herds, and calves,and killed them on the ground, and the people ate with the blood. 33 And it was reported to Saul, saying, The people have sinned against the Lord, eatingwith the blood: and Saul said, Out of Getthaim roll a great stone to me hither. 34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them to bring hither everyone his calf, and every one his sheep: and let them kill it on thisstone and sin not against the Lord in eating with the blood: and the people brought each onethat which was in his hand, and they killedthem there. 35 And Saul built an altar there to the Lord: this was the first altar that Saul built tothe Lord. 36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines this night, and let us plunder amongthem till the day break, and let us not leave a man among them. And they said, Do all that is good inyour sight: and the priest said, let us draw near hither to God. 37 And Saul enquired of God, If I go down after the Philistines, will you deliver them intothe hands of Israel? And he answered him not in that day. 38 And Saul said, Bring hither all the chiefs of Israel, and know and see by whom this sinhas been committed this day. 39 For as the Lord lives who has saved Israel, if answer should be against my son Jonathan,he shall surely die. And there was no one that answered out of all the people. 40 And he said to all the men of Israel, You⌃ shall be under subjection, and I an Jonathanmy son will be under subjection: and the people said to Saul, Do that which is good in your sight. 41 And Saul said, O Lord God of Israel, why have you not answered your servant this day?is the iniquity in me, or in Jonathan my son? Lord God of Israel, give clearmanifestations; and ifthe lot should declare this, give, I pray you, to your people of Israel, give, I pray, holiness.And Jonathan and Saul are taken, and the people escaped. 42 And Saul said, Castlots between me and my son Jonathan: whoever the Lord shall cause to be taken by lot, let himdie: and the people said to Saul, This thing is notto be done: and Saul prevailed against the people, and they castlots between him and Jonathan his son, and Jonathan is taken by lot. 43 And Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done: and Jonathan told him, and said,I did indeed taste a little honey, with the end of my staff that was in my hand, and, behold! Iam to die. 44 And Saul said to him, God do so to me, and more also, you shall surely die today. 45 And the people said to Saul, Shall he that has wrought this great salvation in Israelbe put to death this day?As the Lord lives, there shall not fall to the ground one of the hairs of his head; for thepeople of God have wrought successfully this day. And the people prayed for Jonathan in that day, andhe died not. 46 And Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines departed to theirplace. 47 And Saul received the kingdom, by lot he inherits the officeof ruling over Israel: and he fought against all his enemies round about, against Moab, andagainst the children of Ammon, and against the children of Edom, and against Baethaeor, and against theking of Suba, and against the Philistines: wherever he turned, he was victorious. 48 And he wrought valiantly, and struck Amalec, and rescued Israel out of the hand of themthat trampled on him. 49 And the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Jessiu, and Melchisa: andthese were the names of his two daughters, the name of the firstborn Merob, and the name ofthe second Melchol. 50 And the name of his wife was Achinoom, the daughter of Achimaa: and the name of his captainof the host was Abenner, the son of Ner, son of a kinsman of Saul. 51 And Kiswas the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abenezer,was son of Jamin, son of Abiel. 52 And the war was vehement against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saulsaw any mighty man, and any valiant man, then he took them to himself.