1 Samuel 14:6

And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, let us go over to + 14:6 Heb. מצב 'garrison.' Messab of these uncircumcised, if perhaps the Lord may do something for us; for the Lord is not straitened to save by many or by few.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.

In Context

5The one way was northward to one coming to Machmas, and the other way was southward to one coming to Gabae.

7And his armor-bearer said to him, Do all that your heart inclines toward: behold, I am with you, my heart is as your heart.

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Cross References

Numbers 10:32And it shall come to pass if you will go with us, it shall even come to pass that in whatever things the Lord shall do us good, we will also do you good.

Deuteronomy 32:30How + 32:30 Gr. shall. should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?

Judges 7:4And the Lord said to Gedeon, The people is yet numerous; bring them down to the water, and I will purge them there for you: and it shall come to pass that of whoever I shall say to you, This one shall go with you, even he shall go with you; and of whoever I shall say to you, This one shall not go with you, even he shall not go with you.

Judges 15:18And he was very thirsty, and wept before the Lord, and said, You have been well pleased to grant this great deliverance by the hand of your servant, and new shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

1 Samuel 17:36Your servant struck both the lion and the bear, and the uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them: shall I not go and strike him, and remove this day a reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one, who has defied the army of the living God?

2 Samuel 16:12If by any means the Lord may look on my affliction, thus shall he return me good for his cursing this day.

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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