9. If they say to us, ‘Stay there until we can come to you,’ we will stop where we are; we will not go up to them.
10. But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ we will go up, because the Lord has delivered them into our hand. That will be our sign.”
11. When the two of them came into the view of the Philistine outpost, the Philistines remarked, “Look, some Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have been hiding.”
12. The men of the outpost called to Jonathan and his armor-bearer. “Come up here,” they said, “and we will teach you a lesson.” So Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Climb up after me, for the Lord has delivered them into the hand of Israel.”
13. Jonathan clambered up with his armor-bearer behind him. As the Philistines fell before Jonathan, his armor-bearer, who followed him, would finish them off.
14. In this first attack Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed about twenty men within half a furlong.
15. Then terror spread through the camp and the countryside; all the soldiers in the outpost and in the raiding parties shuddered in terror. The earth shook with an awesome shuddering.
16. Saul’s sentinels in Gibeah of Benjamin saw that the enemy camp had scattered and were running in all directions.
17. Saul said to those around him, “Count the troops and find out if any of us are missing.” When they had taken the count, they found Jonathan and his armor-bearer missing.
18. Saul then said to Ahijah, “Bring the ephod here.” (Ahijah was wearing the ephod before the Israelites at that time.)
19. While Saul was speaking to the priest, the uproar in the Philistine camp kept increasing. So he said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
20. And Saul and all his men rallied and rushed into the fight, where the Philistines, wholly confused, were thrusting swords at one another.