1 Samuel 14:19   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

While Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the Philistine camp increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand."

1 Samuel 14:20   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then Saul and all his men assembled and went to the battle. They found the Philistines in total confusion, striking each other with their swords.

1 Samuel 14:21   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Those Hebrews who had previously been with the Philistines and had gone up with them to their camp went over to the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

1 Samuel 14:24   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Now the Israelites were in distress that day, because Saul had bound the people under an oath, saying, "Cursed be anyone who eats food before evening comes, before I have avenged myself on my enemies!" So none of the troops tasted food.

1 Samuel 14:33   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then someone said to Saul, "Look, the men are sinning against the Lord by eating meat that has blood in it." "You have broken faith," he said. "Roll a large stone over here at once."

1 Samuel 14:35   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first time he had done this.

1 Samuel 14:36   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul said, "Let us go down and pursue the Philistines by night and plunder them till dawn, and let us not leave one of them alive." "Do whatever seems best to you," they replied. But the priest said, "Let us inquire of God here."

1 Samuel 14:37   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

So Saul asked God, "Shall I go down and pursue the Philistines? Will you give them into Israel's hand?" But God did not answer him that day.

1 Samuel 14:38   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul therefore said, "Come here, all you who are leaders of the army, and let us find out what sin has been committed today.

1 Samuel 14:40   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul then said to all the Israelites, "You stand over there; I and Jonathan my son will stand over here." "Do what seems best to you," they replied.

1 Samuel 14:41   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then Saul prayed to the Lord, the God of Israel, "Why have you not answered your servant today? If the fault is in me or my son Jonathan, respond with Urim, but if the men of Israel are at fault, respond with Thummim." Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, and the men were cleared.

1 Samuel 14:42   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul said, "Cast the lot between me and Jonathan my son." And Jonathan was taken.

1 Samuel 14:43   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." So Jonathan told him, "I tasted a little honey with the end of my staff. And now I must die!"

1 Samuel 14:44   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul said, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if you do not die, Jonathan."

1 Samuel 14:45   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

But the men said to Saul, "Should Jonathan die-he who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Never! As surely as the Lord lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he did this today with God's help." So the men rescued Jonathan, and he was not put to death.

1 Samuel 14:46   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Then Saul stopped pursuing the Philistines, and they withdrew to their own land.

1 Samuel 14:47   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

After Saul had assumed rule over Israel, he fought against their enemies on every side: Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment on them.

1 Samuel 14:49   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul's sons were Jonathan, Ishvi and Malki-Shua. The name of his older daughter was Merab, and that of the younger was Michal.

1 Samuel 14:50   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

His wife's name was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the commander of Saul's army was Abner son of Ner, and Ner was Saul's uncle.

1 Samuel 14:51   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

Saul's father Kish and Abner's father Ner were sons of Abiel.

1 Samuel 14:52   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

All the days of Saul there was bitter war with the Philistines, and whenever Saul saw a mighty or brave man, he took him into his service.

1 Samuel 15:1   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord.

1 Samuel 15:4   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

So Saul summoned the men and mustered them at Telaim-two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand from Judah.

1 Samuel 15:5   (Read all of 1 Samuel 15)

Saul went to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the ravine.