1 Samuel 14:6-16

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁶ And Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us. For there is nothing to prevent the Lord from saving by many or by few.

⁷ And his armor-bearer said to him, Do all that is in your mind; I am with you in whatever you think [best].

⁸ Jonathan said, We will pass over to these men and we will let them see us.

⁹ If they say to us, Wait until we come to you, then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them.

¹⁰ But if they say, Come up to us, we will go up, for the Lord has delivered them into our hand, and this will be our sign.

¹¹ So both of them let the Philistine garrison see them. And the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.

¹² The garrison men said to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, Come up to us and we will show you a thing. Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, Come up after me, for the Lord has given them into Israel’s hand.

¹³ Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, his armor-bearer after him; and the enemy fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him.

¹⁴ And that first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made was about twenty men within about a half acre of land [which a yoke of oxen might plow].

¹⁵ And there was trembling and panic in the [Philistine] camp, in the field, and among all the men; the garrison, and even the raiders trembled; the earth quaked, and it became a terror from God.

¹⁶ Saul’s watchmen in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude melted away and went hither and thither.