1 Samuel 14:13

And Jonathan went up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer with him; and they looked on the face of Jonathan, and he struck them, and his armor-bearer did strike them after him.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

12And the men of Messab answered Jonathan and his armor-bearer, and + 14:12 Gr. say. said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing: and Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, Come up after me, for the Lord has delivered them into the hands of Israel.

14And the first + 14:14 Gr. stroke. slaughter which Jonathan and his armor-bearer effected was twenty men, with darts and + 14:14 Gr. casters of stones. slings, and pebbles of the field.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:7and you⌃ shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you with slaughter.

Deuteronomy 28:7The Lord deliver your enemies that withstand you utterly broken before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and they shall flee seven ways from before you.

Joshua 23:10One of you has chased a thousand, for the Lord our God, he fought for you, as he said to 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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