6. Jonathan said to his young helper who carried his weapons, “Come on, let’s go to the camp of those foreigners. Maybe the Lord will use us to defeat them. Nothing can stop the Lord—it doesn’t matter if we have many soldiers or just a few soldiers.”
7. The young man who carried Jonathan’s weapons said to him, “Do what you think is best. Whatever you decide, I am with you all the way.”
8. Jonathan said, “Let’s go! We’ll cross the valley and go to the Philistine guards. We’ll let them see us.
9. If they say to us, ‘Stay there until we come to you,’ we will stay where we are. We won’t go up to them.
10. But if the Philistine men say, ‘Come up here,’ then we will climb up to them. That will be a sign from God. That will mean that the Lord will allow us to defeat them.”