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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 14:9 in context
1 Samuel 14:6–12
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Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the LORD will work for us, for there is no restraint on the LORD to save by many or by few.”
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His armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Go, and behold, I am with you according to your heart.”
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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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