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Judges 2

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¹ Saul and his son Jonathan and the people with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Michmash.

² And the raiding party came from the Philistine camp in three companies: one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual,

³ another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another toward the border overlooking the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

⁴ Now no[7] blacksmith (metal-worker) could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears."

⁵ So all [the men of] Israel went down to the Philistines, each to get his plowshare, pick, axe, or sickle sharpened.

⁶ The fee [for sharpening] was a pim (two-thirds of a shekel) for the plowshares, the picks, the pitchforks, and the axes, and to straighten the goads (cattle prods).

⁷ So it came about on the day of battle that[8] neither sword nor spear was found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.

⁸ And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass at Michmash.

⁹ One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to his young armor bearer, "Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side." But he did not tell his father.

¹⁰ Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron; and with him were about six hundred men,

¹¹ and Ahijah the son of Ichabod's brother Ahitub the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord's priest at Shiloh, was wearing the ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

¹² Between the passes by which Jonathan sought to cross over to get to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; one [crag] was named Bozez, and the other, Seneh.

¹³ The one crag was on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.

¹⁴ Jonathan said to his young armor bearer, "Come, let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men; it may be that the LORD will work for us. For there is nothing to prevent the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few."

¹⁵ And his armor bearer said to him, "Do everything that is in your heart (mind); here I am with you[1] in whatever you think [best]."

¹⁶ Jonathan said, "See now, we are going to cross over to the [Philistine] men and reveal ourselves to them.

¹⁷ If they say to us, 'Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand in our place and not go up to them.

¹⁸ But if they say, 'Come up to us,' we will go up, for the LORD has handed them over to us; and this shall be the sign to us."

¹⁹ When both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, the Philistines said, "Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves."

²⁰ So the men of the garrison responded to Jonathan and his armor bearer, "Come up to us and we will tell you something." Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Climb up after me, for the LORD has given them into the hands of Israel."

²¹ Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, his armor bearer following after him. The enemy fell before Jonathan [in combat], and his armor bearer killed some of them after him.

²² That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty men within about half a [plow] furrow in a plot of land [the area of which a yoke of oxen could plow in a day].

²³ And there was trembling in the [Philistine] camp, in the field, and among all the people; even the garrison and the raiding party trembled [in fear], and the earth quaked and it became a trembling and terror from God.

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1	Saul and his son Jonathan and the people with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Michmash.
2	And the raiding party came from the Philistine camp in three companies: one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual,
3	another company turned toward Beth-horon, and another toward the border overlooking the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
4	Now no[7] blacksmith (metal-worker) could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears."
5	So all [the men of] Israel went down to the Philistines, each to get his plowshare, pick, axe, or sickle sharpened.
6	The fee [for sharpening] was a pim (two-thirds of a shekel) for the plowshares, the picks, the pitchforks, and the axes, and to straighten the goads (cattle prods).
7	So it came about on the day of battle that[8] neither sword nor spear was found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
8	And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass at Michmash.
9	One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to his young armor bearer, "Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side." But he did not tell his father.
10	Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree in Migron; and with him were about six hundred men,
11	and Ahijah the son of Ichabod's brother Ahitub the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord's priest at Shiloh, was wearing the ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.
12	Between the passes by which Jonathan sought to cross over to get to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; one [crag] was named Bozez, and the other, Seneh.
13	The one crag was on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
14	Jonathan said to his young armor bearer, "Come, let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men; it may be that the LORD will work for us. For there is nothing to prevent the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few."
15	And his armor bearer said to him, "Do everything that is in your heart (mind); here I am with you[1] in whatever you think [best]."
16	Jonathan said, "See now, we are going to cross over to the [Philistine] men and reveal ourselves to them.
17	If they say to us, 'Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand in our place and not go up to them.
18	But if they say, 'Come up to us,' we will go up, for the LORD has handed them over to us; and this shall be the sign to us."
19	When both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, the Philistines said, "Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves."
20	So the men of the garrison responded to Jonathan and his armor bearer, "Come up to us and we will tell you something." Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Climb up after me, for the LORD has given them into the hands of Israel."
21	Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, his armor bearer following after him. The enemy fell before Jonathan [in combat], and his armor bearer killed some of them after him.
22	That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty men within about half a [plow] furrow in a plot of land [the area of which a yoke of oxen could plow in a day].
23	And there was trembling in the [Philistine] camp, in the field, and among all the people; even the garrison and the raiding party trembled [in fear], and the earth quaked and it became a trembling and terror from God.

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