⁸ Five^(A) of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.^(B)

¹⁰ One of you routs a thousand,^(A) because the Lord your God fights for you,^(B) just as he promised.

⁷ The Lord will grant that the enemies^(A) who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.^(B)

²⁰ Abishai^(A) the brother of Joab was chief of the Three. He raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed, and so he became as famous as the Three.

¹¹ this is the list of David’s mighty warriors:^(A)

Jashobeam,^[a] a Hakmonite, was chief of the officers^[b]; he raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed in one encounter.

¹⁹ Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars^(A) that were in their hands. ²⁰ The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches^(B) in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A sword^(C) for the Lord and for Gideon!” ²¹ While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.^(D)

⁹ Only do not rebel^(A) against the Lord. And do not be afraid^(B) of the people of the land,^(C) because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with^(D) us.^(E) Do not be afraid of them.”^(F)

⁶ Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let’s go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised^(A) men. Perhaps the Lord will act in our behalf. Nothing^(B) can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many^(C) or by few.^(D)”

⁷ “Do all that you have in mind,” his armor-bearer said. “Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”

⁸ Jonathan said, “Come on, then; we will cross over toward them and let them see us. ⁹ If they say to us, ‘Wait there until we come to you,’ we will stay where we are and not go up to them. ¹⁰ But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ we will climb up, because that will be our sign^(E) that the Lord has given them into our hands.^(F)”

¹¹ So both of them showed themselves to the Philistine outpost. “Look!” said the Philistines. “The Hebrews^(G) are crawling out of the holes they were hiding^(H) in.” ¹² The men of the outpost shouted to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, “Come up to us and we’ll teach you a lesson.^(I)”

So Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Climb up after me; the Lord has given them into the hand^(J) of Israel.”

¹³ Jonathan climbed up, using his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer right behind him. The Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer followed and killed behind him. ¹⁴ In that first attack Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed some twenty men in an area of about half an acre.

Israel Routs the Philistines

¹⁵ Then panic^(K) struck the whole army—those in the camp and field, and those in the outposts and raiding^(L) parties—and the ground shook. It was a panic sent by God.^[a]

¹⁶ Saul’s lookouts^(M) at Gibeah in Benjamin saw the army melting away in all directions.