1 Samuel 14

1 Now it happened on a day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side." But he didn’t tell his father. 2 Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron; and the people who were with him were about six hundred men, 3 including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.

4 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. 5 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba. 6 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 Yahweh will work for us, for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few."

7 His armor bearer said to him, "Do all that is in your heart. Go, and behold, I am with you according to your heart."

8 Then Jonathan said, "Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them. 9 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. 10 But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up, for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us."

11 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!" 12 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 Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel." 13 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. 14 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.

15 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison and the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling. 16 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away and scattered. 17 Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Count now, and see who is missing from us." When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

18 Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring God’s ark here." For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time. 19 While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand!"

20 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and behold, they were all striking each other with their swords in very great confusion. 21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before and who went up with them into the camp from all around, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. 22 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle. 23 So Yahweh saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.

24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.

25 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground. 26 When the people had come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened. 28 Then one of the people answered, and said, "Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’" So the people were faint.

29 Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey. 30 How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the plunder of their enemies which they found? For now there has been no great slaughter among the Philistines." 31 They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint; 32 and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood. 33 Then they told Saul, saying, "Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood."

He said, "You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today!" 34 Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, ‘Every man bring me here his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don’t sin against Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.’" All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.

35 Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh. 36 Saul said, "Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light. Let’s not leave a man of them."

They said, "Do whatever seems good to you."

Then the priest said, "Let’s draw near here to God."

37 Saul asked counsel of God: "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But he didn’t answer him that day. 38 Saul said, "Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see in whom this sin has been today. 39 For as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him. 40 Then he said to all Israel, "You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side."

The people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you."

41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, "Show the right."

Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped.

42 Saul said, "Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son."

Jonathan was selected.

43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done!"

Jonathan told him, and said, "I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die."

44 Saul said, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan."

45 The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God today!" So the people rescued Jonathan, so he didn’t die. 46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side: against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned himself, he defeated them. 48 He did valiantly and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them. 49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal. 50 The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle. 51 Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

52 There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man or any valiant man, he took him into his service.

1 Nā, i tētahi o aua rā ka mea a Honatana, tama a Haora, ki te taitama e mau ana i āna patu, "Haere mai, tāua ka whiti atu ki ngā hōia pupuri a ngā Pirihitini i tāwāhi rā." Otiia kīhai i kōrerotia e ia ki tōna pāpā.

2 Ā, i tērā pito o Kipea a Haora e noho ana i raro i tētahi pamekaranete i Mikirono; tata tonu āna tāngata ki te ono ngā rau; 3 me Āhia anō hoki, tama a Ahitupu, tuakana o Ikaporo, tama a Pinehaha, tama a Eri tohunga a Ihowā i Hiro, ko te kaikākahu ia o te epora. Nā, kīhai te iwi i mōhio kua riro a Honatana.

4 Nā, i waenga o ngā whitinga i whai ai a Honatana kia whiti atu ki ngā hōia pupuri a ngā Pirihitini, tērā tētahi pari kōhatu i tētahi taha, he pari kōhatu hoki i tētahi taha; ko te ingoa o tētahi ko Potete, ko te ingoa o tētahi ko Henehe. 5 I te raki tētahi pari e tū ana, i te ritenga atu o Mikimaha; i te tonga tētahi, i te ritenga atu o Kipea.

6 Nā, ka mea a Honatana ki te taitama e mau ana i āna patu, "Haere mai, tāua ka haere ki ngā hōia o ēnei kokotikore. Tērā pea a Ihowā e mahi mō tāua. Kāhore he aha ki a Ihowā kia riro mā te tokomaha, mā te tokoiti rānei e whakaora."

7 Anō rā ko te kaimau o āna patu ki a ia, "Meatia ngā mea katoa e paingia ana e tōu ngākau; anga atu, tēnei ahau hei hoa mōu, hei pērā me tā tōu ngākau e pai ai."

8 Anō rā ko Honatana, "Nanā, me haere atu tāua ki ngā tāngata rā, me whakaputa atu hoki ki a rātou. 9 Ki te pēnei mai tā rātou kī ki a tāua, ‘Tū mārie, kia tae atu rā anō mātou ki a kōrua; nā, me tū tāua i tō tāua tūranga, e kore anō e piki ki a rātou.’ 10 Engari ki te pēnei tā rātou kī, ‘Piki ake ki a mātou,’ ko reira tāua piki atu ai; nō te mea kua hōmai rātou e Ihowā ki ō tāua ringa; ā, ko tēnei hei tohu ki a tāua."

11 Nā, ka puta rāua tokorua ki ngā hōia pupuri a ngā Pirihitini; ā, ka mea ngā Pirihitini, "Nanā, ko ngā Hiperu e puta mai ana i roto i ngā rua i piri ai rātou." 12 Nā, ka oho ngā hōia pupuri ki a Honatana rāua ko tāna kaimau patu, ka mea, "Piki ake ki a mātou kia whakakitea ai tētahi mea e mātou ki a kōrua."

Nā, ka mea a Honatana ki te kaimau o āna patu, "Piki ake i muri i ahau; kua hōmai hoki rātou e Ihowā ki te ringa o Īharaira."

13 Nā, ka piki atu a Honatana, he mea ngōki atu, me tāna kaimau patu i muri i a ia; nā, hinga ana rātou i a Honatana, me te patu anō te kaimau patu i muri i a ia. 14 Nā, ko te patunga tuatahi i patu ai a Honatana rāua ko tāna kaimau patu, tata tonu ki te rua tekau ngā tāngata; ko te nui o taua wāhi, me te mea kei te hāwhe eka whenua.

15 Nā, ka pā te wiri ki te puni, ki ērā i te pārae, ki te iwi katoa anō hoki; ko ngā hōia, me ngā kaipāhua, i wiri anō hoki rātou; i rū anō te whenua; nui rawa te wiri.

16 Ā, ka titiro ngā tūtei a Haora i Kipea o Pineamine; nā, kua papahoro te ope, me te haere anō rātou, kōpiko atu, kōpiko mai. 17 Kātahi a Haora ka mea ki te iwi i reira, i a ia, "Tatauria tātou kia kitea ko wai kua riro." Ā, nō ka tatauria e rātou, nā, kāhore a Honatana rāua ko tāna kaimau patu i reira.

18 Nā, ka mea a Haora ki a Āhia, "Kawea mai te āka a te Atua." I ngā tama hoki a Īharaira te āka a te Atua i taua wā. 19 Ā, i a Haora e kōrero ana ki te tohunga, ka tino nui haere te ngangau i te puni o ngā Pirihitini; nā, ka kī a Haora ki te tohunga, "Pēpeke ake tōu ringa."

20 Nā, ka huihui a Haora rātou ko tōna nuinga, ā, haere ana ki te whawhai. Nā, e anga mai ana tērā te hoari a tētahi, a tētahi, ki tōna hoa, ki tōna hoa; nui atu te pōkaikaha. 21 Nā, ko ngā Hiperu i roto i ngā Pirihitini i mua atu, i haere tahi atu nei me rātou ki te puni i te whenua i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha; nā, huri ana anō hoki rātou ki te taha i a Īharaira, ki ngā hoa o Haora rāua ko Honatana. 22 Nā pērā anō ngā tāngata katoa o Īharaira i piri nei ki te whenua pukepuke o Ēparaima, i tō rātou rongonga kua whati ngā Pirihitini, nā, kei te whai haere anō hoki i a rātou i roto i te pakanga. 23 Heoi, whakaorangia ana a Īharaira, i taua rā e Ihowā; ā, puta kē ana te whawhai ki Peteawene.

Te Oati Pōnānā a Haora

24 Ā, i hēmanawa ngā tāngata o Īharaira i taua rā; i whakaoati hoki a Haora i te iwi, i mea, "Ki te kai tētahi tangata i te kai ā ahiahi noa, ka kangā ia, kia whai utu rā anō ahau i ōku hoariri." Nā reira kīhai tētahi o te iwi i ānga ki te kai.

25 Nā, ko te haerenga o ngā tāngata katoa o te whenua ki tētahi ngahere; ā, he honi kei runga i te whenua. 26 Ā, nō te taenga o te iwi ki te ngahere, nā, e turuturu iho ana te honi; otiia kīhai i pā te ringa o tētahi tangata ki tōna waha; i wehi hoki te iwi i te oati. 27 Ko Honatana ia kīhai i rongo i te whakaoati a tōna pāpā i te iwi; nā, ka kōkiritia e ia te pito o te tokotoko i tōna ringa, ā, toua ana ki roto ki te honikoma, whakahokia ana e ia tōna ringa ki tōna waha, ā, ka mārama ōna kanohi. 28 Kātahi ka oho tētahi o te iwi, ā, ka mea, "I tino whakaoatitia te iwi e tōu pāpā; i mea ia, ‘Kia kangā te tangata e kai ana i tētahi kai āianei.’ Ā, e hemo ana te iwi."

29 Kātahi a Honatana ka mea, "Raru ana te whenua nei i tōku pāpā. Titiro hoki, kua mārama ōku kanohi, nōku i kai i tētahi wāhi iti o te honi nei. 30 Tērā noa ake mehemea pea i kai noa atu te iwi ināianei i ngā mea i pāhuatia mai i ō rātou hoariri i tūpono atu ai rātou? Ko tēnei kāhore i rahi te parekura o ngā Pirihitini."

31 Nā, patua iho e rātou ngā Pirihitini i taua rangi i Mikimaha atu ā tae noa ki Aitarono; ā, e tino hemo ana te iwi. 32 Nā, ko te rerenga atu o te iwi ki ngā taonga; ka mau ki ngā hipi, ki ngā kau, ki ngā kūao kau, patua iho ki te whenua, kainga tahitia ana e te iwi me ngā toto. 33 Kātahi ka kōrerotia ki a Haora ka meatia, "Nanā, kua hara te iwi ki a Ihowā, e kainga tahitia ana tā rātou kai me ngā toto."

Nā, ka mea ia, "He mahi hīanga tā koutou; hurihia mai he kōhatu nui ki ahau āianei." 34 Ka mea anō a Haora, "Tomotomo atu koutou ki roto ki te iwi mea atu hoki ki a rātou, Kawea mai ki ahau, e tērā, e tērā, tāna kau, tāna hipi, ka patu ai ki konei hei kai mā koutou; kaua hoki e hara ki a Ihowā, e kai i te toto."

Kātahi ka kawea mai e te iwi katoa i taua pō te kau a tēnā, a tēnā, ā, patua iho ana ki reira. 35 Nā, ka hangā e Haora he āta mā Ihowā. Koia tēnei ko te āta tuatahi i hangā e ia mā Ihowā.

Ka Whakawhara a Honatana ki te Mate

36 Nā, ka mea a Haora, "Tātou ka haere ki raro, ka whai i ngā Pirihitini i te pō, ka pāhua i a rātou ā mārama noa te ata; kaua anō e waiho tētahi tangata o rātou."