42. And Saul saith, `Cast between me and Jonathan my son;' and Jonathan is captured.
43. And Saul saith unto Jonathan, `Declare to me, what hast thou done?' and Jonathan declareth to him, and saith, `I certainly tasted with the end of the rod that [is] in my hand a little honey; lo, I die!'
44. And Saul saith, `Thus doth God do, and thus doth He add, for thou dost certainly die, Jonathan.'
45. And the people say unto Saul, `Doth Jonathan die who wrought this great salvation in Israel? --a profanation! Jehovah liveth, if there falleth from the hair of his head to the earth, for with God he hath wrought this day;' and the people rescue Jonathan, and he hath not died.
46. And Saul goeth up from after the Philistines, and the Philistines have gone to their place;
47. and Saul captured the kingdom over Israel, and he fighteth round about against all his enemies, against Moab, and against the Bene-Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines, and whithersoever he turneth he doth vex [them].
48. And he maketh a force, and smiteth Amalek, and delivereth Israel out of the hand of its spoiler.
49. And the sons of Saul are Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-Shua; as to the name of his two daughters, the name of the first-born [is] Merab, and the name of the younger Michal;