1 Samuel 14:13

So Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer right behind him. Jonathan attacked and killed them, and his armor-bearer followed doing the same.

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In The King James Version

And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.

In Context

12The men from the garrison called down to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, “Come up here, and we'll teach you a thing or two!” “Follow me up,” Jonathan told his armor-bearer, “for the Lord has handed them over to Israel.”

14In this first attack, Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed about twenty men over an area of half an acre.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:7You will chase your enemies, and kill them with the sword.

Deuteronomy 28:7The Lord will defeat the enemies who come to attack you. They will come at you from one direction, but they will scatter seven different ways.

Joshua 23:10Just one of you can chase away a thousand enemies, for the Lord your God is fighting for you, as he promised you.

Romans 8:31So what's our response to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 14:2-16

Jonathan Smites the Philistines. ( b. c. 1067.) 1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father. 2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men; 3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the… Read the whole commentary →

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