Polyglot Bible: 1 Samuel: 1 Samuel 14

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This is the fourteenth chapter of 1 Samuel from the Hebrew Bible, presented in a scholarly parallel format: the King James Version with embedded Strong's Concordance numbers (Hebrew lexical reference codes) alongside the opening of the Septuagint (ancient Greek) translation. It recounts Jonathan's audacious solo raid on a Philistine garrison at Michmash—undertaken without his father Saul's knowledge—in which he and his armor-bearer kill about twenty men, triggering a divinely amplified panic that routes the entire Philistine army. A central dramatic tension is Saul's impulsive military oath forbidding anyone to eat until evening: Jonathan, unaware of it, tastes honey and is later identified by sacred lot as the oath-breaker, whereupon Saul pronounces a death sentence on his own son. The people intervene to rescue Jonathan on the grounds that he was the instrument of Israel's deliverance that day. The chapter closes with a summary of Saul's wider campaigns and a genealogical note on his household. Its distinctive perspective is the implicit contrast between Jonathan's faithful boldness ("there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few") and Saul's erratic leadership—the oath that weakens the army, the failed divine inquiry, and the near-execution of a hero—quietly foreshadowing Saul's eventual rejection as king.

Polyglot Bible: 1 Samuel: 1 Samuel 14

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