Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, “Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 14:11 in context
1 Samuel 14:8–14
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Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them.
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If they say this to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’ then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them.
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But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up, for the LORD has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us.”
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Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, “Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!”
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The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you something!”
Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up after me, for the LORD has delivered them into the hand of Israel.”
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Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him, and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him.
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That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.
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