7. “Do whatever you want,” the soldier answered. “I'll be with you.”
8. “This is what we will do,” Jonathan said. “We will go across and let them see us.
9. If they agree to come down the hill and fight where we are, then we won't climb up to their camp.
10. But we will go if they tell us to come up the hill and fight. That will mean the Lord is going to help us win.”
13. Jonathan crawled up the hillside with the soldier following him. When they got to the top, Jonathan killed the Philistines who attacked from the front, and the soldier killed those who attacked from behind.
14. Before they had gone thirty metres, they had killed about twenty Philistines.
15. The whole Philistine army panicked—those in camp, those on guard duty, those in the fields, and those on raiding patrols. All of them were afraid and confused. Then God sent an earthquake, and the ground began to tremble.
16. Saul's lookouts at Geba saw that the Philistine army was running in every direction, like melted wax.
17. Saul told his officers, “Call the roll and find out who left our camp.” When they had finished, they found out that Jonathan and the soldier who carried his weapons were missing.
18. At that time, Ahijah was serving as priest for the army of Israel, and Saul told him, “Come over here! Let's ask God what we should do.”