35. Saul built an altar to the Lord. This was the first altar that he built to the Lord.
36. Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder amongst them until the morning light, and let’s not leave a man of them.”They said, “Do whatever seems good to you.”Then the priest said, “Let’s draw near here to God.”
37. 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.
38. Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been today.
39. 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 amongst all the people who answered him.
40. Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.”The people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”
41. Therefore Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, “Show the right.”Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped.
42. Saul said, “Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.”Jonathan was selected.
43. Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!”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.”
44. Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”