² Then the Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan, ^[a]Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul’s sons.

Israel’s Futile Idolatry

^39 (A)Ner begot Kish, Kish begot Saul, and Saul begot Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Esh-Baal.

^33 (A)Ner^[a] begot Kish, Kish begot Saul, and Saul begot Jonathan, Malchishua, ^[b]Abinadab, and ^[c]Esh-Baal.

⁷ Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, ^(A)put^[a] out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.

^29 (A)In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went ^[a]to the aid of the king of Assyria, to the River Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him. And Pharaoh Necho killed him at ^(B)Megiddo when he ^(C)confronted him.

^49 (A)The sons of Saul were Jonathan, ^[a]Jishui, and Malchishua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger ^(B)Michal.

³⁹ For ^(A)as the Lord lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But not a man among all the people answered him. ⁴⁰ Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and my son Jonathan and I will be on the other side.”

And the people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”

⁶ Then Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these ^(A)uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us. For nothing restrains the Lord ^(B)from saving by many or by few.”