1 Samuel 14:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer following after him. The Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer coming after him killed them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, his armor-bearer after him; and the enemy fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armorbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armorbearer slew them after him.

Common English Bible

So Jonathan scrambled up on his hands and feet with his armor-bearer right behind him. The Philistines fell before Jonathan. His armor-bearer, coming behind him, would then finish them off.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then Jonathan ascended, crawling on his hands and feet, and his armor bearer after him. And then, some fell before Jonathan, others his armor bearer killed as he was following him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Jonathan went up creeping on his hands and feet. And his armourbearer after him. And some fell before Jonathan, others his armourbearer slew as he followed him.

1 Samuel 14:13 Cross References

Psalm 18:29

By you I can outrun a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

Romans 8:31

What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Deuteronomy 28:7

“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

Deuteronomy 32:30

How could one have routed a thousand and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, the Lord had given them up?

Hebrews 11:34

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

Joshua 23:10

One of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, as he promised you.

Judges 9:54

Immediately he called to the young man who carried his armor and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, so people will not say about me, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” So the young man thrust him through, and he died.

1 Samuel 14:12

The men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer, saying, “Come up to us, and we will show you something.” Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Come up after me, for the Lord has given them into the hand of Israel.”

1 Samuel 14:14

In that first attack Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed about twenty men within an area about half a furrow long in an acre of land.