Amplified Bible

1 Samuel 14:3-13 Amplified Bible (AMP)

3. And Ahijah son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord's priest in Shiloh, was wearing the ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan was gone.

4. Between the passes by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; one was named Bozez, and the other Seneh.

5. The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.

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.