14 Then one day, Sha’uls son Yonatan said to the young man who carried his equipment, “Come, and let’s cross over to the Philistine unit that’s over on the opposite side.” But he didn’t tell his father. 2 Meanwhile, Sha’ul was still waiting under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Geba with around six-hundred warriors. 3 Ahiyah the priest was also there wearing a sacred apron. (He was son of Ahitub the brother of Ikabod, son of Finehas, son of Eli, Yahweh’s priest at Shiloh.) But the people didn’t know that Yonatan had gone.

4 Meanwhile, for Yonatan to get to the Philistine garrison, they had to go through a narrow pass between two cliffs. (The cliff on one side was named Botsets, and the other was named Senneh. 5 One cliff faced north toward Mikmas, and the other side faced south toward Geba.)

6 Yonatan said to his servant carrying his equipment, “Come on. Let’s pass over to that group of these uncircumcised ones. Perhaps Yahweh will help us, because it doesn’t matter to him whether he saves using many people or just a few.”

7 “Do everything that you feel is right,” he responded. “Go on ahead and be confident that I’ll be there supporting you.”

8 “Listen then,” Yonatan said. “We’ll cross over and then reveal ourselves to them. 9 Then if they tell us, ‘Stay there until we get down to you,’ then we’ll stay where we are and not go up to them. 10 But if they say, ‘Come on up to us,’ then we’ll go up, because that’ll be the sign to us that Yahweh will help us overpower them.”

11 So the two of them revealed themselves to the Philistine unit, and the soldiers said, “Hey, look. The Hebrews are coming out from the holes there where they’ve hidden themselves.” 12 Then some of the men called to Yonatan and his servant, “Come on up here to us and we’ll teach you a thing or two.”

“Come on up behind me,” Yonatan told his servant, “because Yahweh has already declared Israel to be the victor.” 13 So Yonatan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his servant following behind him. Then at the top, Yonatan struck them down with his sword while his servant followed behind and killed them. 14 In that first offensive, Yonatan and his servant killed about twenty men in an area of around 30m square. 15 At that time, Philistines in the camp started getting the jitters, then all the people and even raiding parties. Then the ground shook, and it turned into a God-given panic.