1 Samuel 14:13

Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor bearer followed behind him. The Philistines were put to death before Jonathan, and his armor bearer put some to death behind him.

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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

12Then the men of the garrison called to Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you something.” Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Follow after me, because Yahweh has given them into the hand of Israel.”

14That first attack that Jonathan and his armor bearer made, killed about twenty men within an area of half an acre.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:7You will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

Deuteronomy 28:7Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck down before you; they will come out against you one way but will flee before you seven ways.

Joshua 23:10Any single man of your number will make a thousand run away, for Yahweh your God, is the one who fights for you, just as he promised you.

Romans 8:31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who is 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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