43. Then Saul asked Jonathan, “What have you done?”Jonathan answered, “I ate a little honey with the stick I was holding. Here I am — I am ready to die.”
44. Saul said to him, “May God strike me dead if you are not put to death!”
45. But the people said to Saul, “Will Jonathan, who won this great victory for Israel, be put to death? No! We promise by the living Lord that he will not lose even a hair from his head. What he did today was done with God's help.” So the people saved Jonathan from being put to death.
46. After that, Saul stopped pursuing the Philistines, and they went back to their own territory.
47. After Saul became king of Israel, he fought against all his enemies everywhere: the people of Moab, of Ammon, and of Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he fought he was victorious.