¹Now it came to pass upon a day, that Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] the son of Sha’ul [desired] said unto the young man that bore his armour, Come, and let us go over to the P’lishtim [Immigrants] ’ Garrison (fortification; military post) , that [is] on the other side. But he told not his father.

²And Sha’ul [desired] tarried in the uttermost part of Giv’ah [Hill] under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron [precipice] : and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men;

³And Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] , the son of Achituv [my brother is good] , I-Khavod’s brother, the son of Pinchas [mouth of brass] , the son of ‘Eli [ascension] , the Lord -Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] priest in Shiloh [Place of Rest] , wearing an ephod (vest) . And the people knew not that Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] was gone.

⁴And between the passages, by which Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] sought to go over unto the P’lishtim [Immigrants] ’ Garrison (fortification; military post) , [there was] a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one [was] Botzetz [surpassing white; glistening] , and the name of the other Seneh [thorny] .

⁵The forefront of the one [was] situate northward over against Mikhmas [hidden] , and the other southward over against Giv’ah [Hill] .

⁶And Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] said to the young man that bore his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the Garrison (fortification; military post) of these uncircumcised: it may be that the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will work for us: for [there is] no restraint to the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to save by many or by few.

⁷And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that [is] in youi heart: turn youi ; behold, I [am] with youi according to youi heart.

⁸Then said Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] , Behold, we will pass over unto [these] men, and we will discover (uncover; reveal; have first sight of) ourselves unto them.

⁹If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.

¹⁰But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has delivered them into our hand: and this [shall be] a sign unto us.

¹¹And both of them discovered themselves unto the Garrison (fortification; military post) of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] : and the P’lishtim [Immigrants] said, Behold, the ‘Evri’ot [Hebrew] come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.

¹²And the men of the Garrison (fortification; military post) answered Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has delivered them into the hand of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .

¹³And Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] ; and his armourbearer killed after him.

¹⁴And that first slaughter, which Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, [which] a yoke [of oxen might plow] .

¹⁵And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the Garrison (fortification; military post) , and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.

¹⁶And the watchmen of Sha’ul [desired] in Giv’ah [Hill] of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down [one another] .

¹⁷Then said Sha’ul [desired] unto the people that [were] with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] and his armourbearer [were] not [there] .

¹⁸And Sha’ul [desired] said unto Achiyah [brother of Yehovah] , Bring here the ark of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] . For the ark of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] was at that time with the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] .

¹⁹And it came to pass, while Sha’ul [desired] talked unto the priest, that the noise that [was] in the host of the P’lishtim [Immigrants] went on and increased: and Sha’ul [desired] said unto the priest, Withdraw youi hand.

²⁰And Sha’ul [desired] and all the people that [were] with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great discomfiture.

²¹Moreover the ‘Evri’ot [Hebrew] [that] were with the P’lishtim [Immigrants] before that time, which went up with them into the camp [from the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Yisra’eli’s that [were] with Sha’ul [desired] and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] .

²²Likewise all the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] which had hid themselves in mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] , [when] they heard that the P’lishtim [Immigrants] fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

²³So the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) saved Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that day: and the battle passed over unto Beit-On [vanity] [house of vanity] .

²⁴And the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were distressed that day: for Sha’ul [desired] had adjured the people, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eats [any] food until evening, that I may be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted [any] food.

²⁵And all [they of] the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.

²⁶And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.

²⁷But Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that [was] in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

²⁸Then answered one of the people, and said, Your1s father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eats [any] food this day. And the people were faint.

²⁹Then said Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] , My father has troubled the land: see, I pray you, how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

³⁰How much more, if perhaps (maybe) the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the P’lishtim [Immigrants] ?

³¹And they struck the P’lishtim [Immigrants] that day from Mikhmas [hidden] to Ayalon [Field of Deer] : and the people were very faint.

³²And the people flew upon the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) , and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and killed [them] on the ground: and the people did eat [them] with the blood.

³³Then they told Sha’ul [desired] , saying, Behold, the people sin against the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , in that they eat with the blood. And he said, You2f have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.

³⁴And Sha’ul [desired] said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay [them] here, and eat; and sin not against the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed [them] there.

³⁵And Sha’ul [desired] built an altar unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) : the same was the first altar that he built unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

³⁶And Sha’ul [desired] said, Let us go down after the P’lishtim [Immigrants] by night, and spoil (plunder; prey; booty) them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seems good unto youi . Then said the priest, Let us draw near here unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] .

³⁷And Sha’ul [desired] asked counsel of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , Shall I go down after the P’lishtim [Immigrants] ? will youi deliver them into the hand of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ? But he answered him not that day.

³⁸And Sha’ul [desired] said, Draw you2f near here, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin has been this day.

³⁹For, [as] the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, which saves Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , though it be in Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] my son, he shall surely die. But [there was] not a man among all the people [that] answered him.

⁴⁰Then said he unto all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , Be you2f on one side, and I and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Sha’ul [desired] , Do what seems good unto youi .

⁴¹Therefore Sha’ul [desired] said unto the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , Give a perfect [lot] . And Sha’ul [desired] and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] were taken: but the people escaped.

⁴²And Sha’ul [desired] said, Cast [lots] between me and Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] my son. And Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] was taken.

⁴³Then Sha’ul [desired] said to Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] , Tell me what youi have done. And Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that [was] in my hand, [and] , lo, I must die.

⁴⁴And Sha’ul [desired] answered, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] do so and more also: for youi shall surely die, Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] .

⁴⁵And the people said unto Sha’ul [desired] , Shall Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] die, who has wrought this great salvation in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ? God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] forbid: [as] the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to (to do entirely, do wholly) the ground; for he has wrought with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] this day. So the people rescued Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] , that he died not.

⁴⁶Then Sha’ul [desired] went up from following the P’lishtim [Immigrants] : and the P’lishtim [Immigrants] went to their own place.

⁴⁷So Sha’ul [desired] took the kingdom over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Mo’av [Seed of my Father] , and against the children of ‘Amon [Inbred] , and against Edom [Red] , and against the kings of Tzovah [station] , and against the P’lishtim [Immigrants] : and to wherever he turned himself, he vexed [them] .

⁴⁸And he gathered an host, and struck the ‘Amalekim [Dwellers in a Valley] , and delivered Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

⁴⁹Now the sons of Sha’ul [desired] were Y’honatan [Yehovah has Given] , and Yishvi [he resembles me] , and Malkishua [my king is wealth] : and the names of his two daughters [were these] ; the name of the firstborn Merav [increase] , and the name of the younger Mikhal [who is like God?] :

⁵⁰And the name of Sha’ul’s [desired] wife [was] Achino’am [my brother is delight] , the daughter of Achima’atz [my brother is anger (wrath)] : and the name of the captain of his host [was] Avner [my father is a lamp] , the son of Ner [lamp] , Sha’ul’s [desired] uncle.

⁵¹And Kish [bent] [was] the father of Sha’ul [desired] ; and Ner [lamp] the father of Avner [my father is a lamp] [was] the son of Avi’el [El (God) is my father] .

⁵²And there was sore war against the P’lishtim [Immigrants] all the days of Sha’ul [desired] : and when Sha’ul [desired] saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.