Leeser(i)
40 Then said he unto all Israel, Ye shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good in thy eyes.
41 And Saul said unto the Lord, God of Israel, O, show forth the perfect truth. And Jonathan and Saul were seized; but the people came forth free.
42 And Saul said, Cast the lot between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was seized.
43 Then said Saul to Jonathan, Do tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste with the end of the staff that was in my hand a little honey: lo, I am willing to die.
44 And Saul said, May God do thus now, and in future also; for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.
45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? This shall not be: as the Lord liveth, there shall not fall one hair of his head to the ground; for with God hath he wrought this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, and he died not.
46 Then went Saul up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.
47 So Saul strengthened himself in the government over Israel; and he fought on every side against all his enemies, against Moab, and against the children of ‘Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he caused terror.
48 And he gathered an army, and he smote the ‘Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those that spoiled them.
49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Yishvi, and Malkishua’: and the names of his two daughters—the name of the first-born was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.
50 And the name of Saul’s wife was Achino’am, the daughter of Achima’az: and the name of the captain of his army was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.
51 And Kish the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner, were each the son of Abiel.
52 And the war against the Philistines was violent all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto himself.