Now it happened on a day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father. 1Sa 13:21Sa 13:221Sa 14:39-451Sa 18:1-41Sa 25:192Sa 1:25-262Sa 1:4-5Jdg 14:6 Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron; and the people who were with him were about six hundred men, 1Sa 13:15-16Isa 10:28-29 including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone. 1Sa 2:281Sa 22:201Sa 4:211Sa 22:9-12Exo 28:26-32
Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. 1Sa 13:23 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba. Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the LORD will work for us, for there is no restraint on the LORD to save by many or by few.” Mat 19:26Rom 8:31Zec 4:6Deu 32:302Ch 14:11Psa 115:1-32Ki 19:42Sa 16:12
His armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Go, and behold, I am with you according to your heart.” 2Sa 7:31Sa 10:7Psa 46:7Zec 8:23
Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them. Jdg 7:9-14 If they say this to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’ then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them. Gen 24:13-14Jdg 6:36-40 But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up, for the LORD has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us.” Gen 24:141Sa 10:7Jdg 7:11Isa 7:11-14Jdg 6:36
Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, “Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!” 1Sa 13:61Sa 14:22Jdg 6:2 The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you something!” 1Sa 17:43-442Sa 5:241Sa 14:102Ki 14:82Sa 2:14-17Gen 24:26-27Gen 24:42Gen 24:48
Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up after me, for the LORD has delivered them into the hand of Israel.” Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him, and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him. Deu 28:7Deu 32:30Heb 11:34Jos 23:10Lev 26:7-8Psa 18:29Rom 8:31 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.
There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison and the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling. 1Sa 13:17Gen 35:52Ki 7:6-72Sa 5:24Exo 19:181Sa 13:23Dan 5:6Jdg 7:21 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away and scattered. 1Sa 14:202Ch 20:22-25Isa 19:2Jdg 7:22Psa 58:7Psa 68:2 Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Count now, and see who is missing from us.” When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.
Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time. 1Sa 30:7-81Sa 4:3-51Sa 5:21Sa 7:12Sa 11:112Sa 15:24-26Jdg 20:18Jdg 20:23 While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand!” 1Sa 14:24Num 27:211Sa 13:11Isa 28:16Jos 9:14Psa 106:13
Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and behold, they were all striking each other with their swords in very great confusion. 2Ch 20:23Jdg 7:221Sa 14:16Isa 19:2Isa 9:19-21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before and who went up with them into the camp from all around, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. 1Sa 29:4Jdg 7:23 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle. 1Sa 13:61Sa 31:7 So the LORD saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven. Exo 14:301Sa 13:5Psa 44:6-8Hos 1:72Ki 14:27Jdg 2:18
The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food. Jos 6:26Rom 10:21Co 16:221Sa 14:27-30Deu 27:15-26Jdg 1:28Jdg 11:30-31Jdg 21:1-5
All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground. Deu 9:28Exo 3:8Num 13:27Mat 3:4-5 When the people had come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. Ecc 9:2 But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened. 1Sa 14:291Sa 14:431Sa 30:12Pro 25:26 Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’” So the people were faint. 1Sa 14:241Sa 14:43
Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey. 1Ki 18:18Jos 7:25 How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the plunder of their enemies which they found? For now there has been no great slaughter among the Philistines.” Ecc 9:18 They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint; Jos 10:12Jos 19:42 and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood. 1Sa 15:19Lev 3:17Deu 12:16Gen 9:4Lev 17:10-14Lev 19:26Act 15:20Deu 12:23-24 Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD, in that they eat meat with the blood.” Rom 2:1Mat 7:5
He said, “You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today!” Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, ‘Every man bring me here his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don’t sin against the LORD in eating meat with the blood.’” All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
Saul built an altar to the LORD. This was the first altar that he built to the LORD. 1Sa 7:171Sa 7:121Sa 7:92Ti 3:5Hos 8:14Jdg 21:4 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light. Let’s not leave a man of them.” Psa 73:28Isa 48:1-21Sa 11:111Sa 14:18-191Sa 14:3Isa 58:2Jas 4:8Jer 6:5
They said, “Do whatever seems good to you.”
Then the priest said, “Let’s draw near here to God.”
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. 1Sa 28:61Ki 22:151Ki 22:51Sa 23:41Sa 23:9-121Sa 30:7-82Sa 5:192Sa 5:23 Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see in whom this sin has been today. 1Sa 10:19-202Sa 18:3Jdg 20:2Jos 7:11Jos 7:14-26Num 24:17Psa 47:9Zec 10:4 For as the LORD lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him. 1Sa 14:442Sa 12:51Sa 14:241Sa 19:61Sa 20:311Sa 22:161Sa 28:10Ecc 9:2 Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” 1Sa 14:361Sa 14:72Sa 15:15
The people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”
Therefore Saul said to the LORD, the God of Israel, “Show the right.” Act 1:241Sa 10:20-21Jos 7:16-18Jon 1:7Pro 16:33
Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped.
Saul said, “Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.”
Jonathan was selected.
Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!” Jos 7:191Sa 14:27Jon 1:7-10
Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.”
Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.” 1Sa 14:39Rut 1:171Sa 25:222Sa 12:312Sa 12:52Sa 19:132Sa 3:9Gen 38:24
The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, so he didn’t die. 2Sa 14:11Act 27:34Luk 21:181Ki 1:522Co 6:1Mat 10:30Act 15:12Act 21:19 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.
Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side: against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned himself, he defeated them. 2Sa 10:61Sa 14:521Ki 11:231Sa 11:1-131Sa 12:21Sa 13:12Ki 14:272Sa 8:3 He did valiantly and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them. 1Sa 15:3-7Deu 25:19Exo 17:14 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal. 1Ch 8:331Sa 31:21Ch 9:392Sa 6:20-231Sa 18:7-211Sa 25:442Sa 3:13-16 The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle. 2Sa 2:81Sa 17:552Sa 3:27 Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel. 1Sa 9:11Sa 9:21
There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man or any valiant man, he took him into his service. 1Sa 8:111Sa 8:1