1 Rg 14:1Et accidit quādam diē ut dīceret Jonathas fīlius Saul ad adolēscentem armigerum suum: Venī, et trānseāmus ad statiōnem Philisthinōrum, quae est trāns locum illum.And it happened on a certain day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man, his armour-bearer: "Come, and let us cross over to the garrison of the Philistines, which is across that place." 1 Rg 14:1Patrī autem suō hoc ipsum nōn indicāvit.But to his father he did not tell this very thing. 1 Rg 14:2Porrō Saul morābātur in extrēmā parte Gabaa sub mālogrānātō, quae erat in Magron: et erat populus cum eō quasi sexcentōrum virōrum.Now Saul was staying in the furthest part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree, which was in Migron: and the people with him was about six hundred men. 1 Rg 14:3Et Achias fīlius Achitob frātris Ichabod fīliī Phinees, quī ortus fuerat ex Heli sacerdōte Dominī in Silo, portābat ephod.And Ahijah, son of Ahitub, the brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas, who had sprung from Eli, priest of the Lord in Shiloh, was carrying the ephod. 1 Rg 14:3Sed et populus ignōrābat quō īsset Jonathas.And the people too did not know where Jonathan had gone.
1 Rg 14:4Erant autem inter ascēnsūs per quōs nītēbātur Jonathas trānsīre ad statiōnem Philisthinōrum, ēminentēs petrae ex utrāque parte, et quasi in modum dentium scopulī hinc et inde praeruptī: nōmen ūnī Boses, et nōmen alterī Sene: ūnus scopulus prōminēns ad aquilōnem ex adversō Machmas, et alter ad merīdiem contrā Gabaa.Now there were, between the ascents by which Jonathan was striving to cross to the garrison of the Philistines, rocks jutting out on either side, and crags, like teeth in form, sheer on this side and that: the name to one was Bozez, and the name to the other Seneh: one crag jutting out to the north opposite Michmash, and the other to the south facing Gibeah. 1 Rg 14:6Dīxit autem Jonathas ad adolēscentem armigerum suum: Venī, trānseāmus ad statiōnem incircumcīsōrum hōrum, sī forte faciat Dominus prō nōbīs: quia nōn est Dominō difficile salvāre, vel in multīs, vel in paucīs.And Jonathan said to the young man, his armour-bearer: "Come, let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, if perhaps the Lord may act for us: because it is not difficult for the Lord to save, whether by many, or by few."
1 Rg 14:7Dīxitque eī armiger suus: Fac omnia quae placent animō tuō: perge quō cupis, et erō tēcum ubicumque volueris.And his armour-bearer said to him: "Do all things which please your mind: go on where you desire, and I will be with you wherever you wish." 1 Rg 14:8Et ait Jonathas: Ecce nōs trānsīmus ad virōs istōs.And Jonathan said: "Look, we are crossing over to these men. 1 Rg 14:8Cumque appāruerimus eīs, sī tāliter locūtī fuerint ad nōs: Manēte dōnec veniāmus ad vōs: stēmus in locō nostrō, nec ascendāmus ad eōs.And when we have appeared to them, if they speak to us in such a way: Stay until we come to you: let us stand in our place, and not go up to them. 1 Rg 14:10Sī autem dīxerint: Ascendite ad nōs: ascendāmus, quia trādidit eōs Dominus in manibus nostrīs: hoc erit nōbīs signum.But if they say: Come up to us: let us go up, because the Lord has handed them over into our hands: this will be a sign for us." 1 Rg 14:11Appāruit igitur uterque statiōnī Philisthinōrum: dīxēruntque Philisthiim: Ēn Hebraeī ēgrediuntur dē cavernīs in quibus absconditī fuerant.So both of them appeared to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said: "See, the Hebrews are coming out of the caves in which they had been hidden."
1 Rg 14:12Et locūtī sunt virī dē statiōne ad Jonathan et ad armigerum ejus, dīxēruntque: Ascendite ad nōs, et ostendēmus vōbīs rem.And the men of the garrison spoke to Jonathan and to his armour-bearer, and said: "Come up to us, and we will show you something." 1 Rg 14:12Et ait Jonathas ad armigerum suum: Ascendāmus: Sequere mē: trādidit enim Dominus eōs in manūs Isrāël.And Jonathan said to his armour-bearer: "Let us go up: follow me: for the Lord has handed them over into the hands of Israel." 1 Rg 14:13Ascendit autem Jonathas manibus et pedibus rēptāns, et armiger ejus post eum.And Jonathan went up, creeping on hands and feet, and his armour-bearer after him. 1 Rg 14:13Itaque aliī cadēbant ante Jonathan, aliōs armiger ejus interficiēbat sequēns eum.And so some were falling before Jonathan, others his armour-bearer, following him, was killing. 1 Rg 14:14Et facta est plaga prīma quā percussit Jonathas et armiger ejus, quasi vīgintī virōrum in mediā parte jūgerī quam pār boum in diē arāre cōnsuēvit.And there was made the first slaughter, with which Jonathan and his armour-bearer struck, of about twenty men in the half part of an acre which a pair of oxen is accustomed to plough in a day.
1 Rg 14:15Et factum est mīrāculum in castrīs per agrōs: sed et omnis populus statiōnis eōrum quī ierant ad praedandum, obstupuit, et conturbāta est terra: et accidit quasi mīrāculum ā Deō.And there came about a wonder in the camp throughout the fields: and also all the people of their garrison who had gone to plunder were stunned, and the earth was thrown into turmoil: and it happened like a wonder from God. 1 Rg 14:16Et respexērunt speculātōrēs Saul quī erant in Gabaā Benjamin, et ecce multitūdō prōstrāta, et hūc illūcque diffugiēns.And the watchmen of Saul who were in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and look, a multitude laid low, and fleeing apart this way and that. 1 Rg 14:17Et ait Saul populō quī erat cum eō: Requīrite, et vidēte quis abierit ex nōbīs.And Saul said to the people who were with him: "Search, and see who has gone off from us." 1 Rg 14:17Cumque requīsīssent, repertum est nōn adesse Jonathan et armigerum ejus.And when they had searched, it was found that Jonathan and his armour-bearer were not present. 1 Rg 14:18Et ait Saul ad Achiam: Applicā arcam Deī.And Saul said to Ahijah: "Bring near the ark of God."
1 Rg 14:18(Erat enim ibi arca Deī in diē illā cum fīliīs Isrāël.) Cumque loquerētur Saul ad sacerdōtem, tumultus magnus exortus est in castrīs Philisthinōrum: crēscēbatque paulātim, et clārius resonābat.(For the ark of God was there on that day with the sons of Israel.) And while Saul was speaking to the priest, a great uproar arose in the camp of the Philistines: and it was growing little by little, and resounding more clearly. 1 Rg 14:19Et ait Saul ad sacerdōtem: Contrahe manum tuam.And Saul said to the priest: "Draw in your hand." 1 Rg 14:20Conclāmāvit ergō Saul, et omnis populus quī erat cum eō, et vēnērunt ūsque ad locum certāminis: et ecce versus fuerat gladius ūnīuscujusque ad proximum suum, et caedēs magna nimis.So Saul shouted together, and all the people who were with him, and they came as far as the place of the contest: and look, the sword of each one had been turned against his neighbour, and the slaughter was great beyond measure. 1 Rg 14:21Sed et Hebraeī quī fuerant cum Philisthiim herī et nūdiustertius, ascenderantque cum eīs in castrīs, reversī sunt ut essent cum Isrāël quī erant cum Saul et Jonathā.And also the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines yesterday and the day before, and had gone up with them in the camp, turned back to be with Israel who were with Saul and Jonathan.
1 Rg 14:22Omnēs quoque Isrāëlītae quī sē absconderant in monte Ephraim, audientēs quod fūgissent Philisthaeī, sociāvērunt sē cum suīs in praeliō.All the Israelites also who had hidden themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had fled, joined themselves with their own people in the battle. 1 Rg 14:22Et erant cum Saul quasi decem mīllia virōrum.And there were with Saul about ten thousand men. 1 Rg 14:23Et salvāvit Dominus in diē illā Isrāël: pugna autem pervēnit ūsque ad Bethaven.And the Lord saved Israel on that day: and the fighting reached as far as Beth-aven. 1 Rg 14:24Et virī Isrāël sociātī sunt sibi in diē illā: adjūrāvit autem Saul populum, dīcēns: Maledictus vir quī comēderit pānem ūsque ad vesperam, dōnec ulcīscar dē inimīcīs meīs.And the men of Israel were joined together on that day: and Saul put the people under oath, saying: "Cursed be the man who eats bread until evening, until I take vengeance on my enemies." 1 Rg 14:24Et nōn mandūcāvit ūniversus populus pānem: omneque terrae vulgus vēnit in saltum, in quō erat mel super faciem agrī.And the whole people did not eat bread: and all the common folk of the land came into a woodland, in which there was honey upon the face of the field.
1 Rg 14:26Ingressus est itaque populus saltum, et appāruit fluēns mel, nūllusque applicuit manum ad ōs suum: timēbat enim populus jūrāmentum.And so the people entered the woodland, and honey appeared flowing, and no one put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath. 1 Rg 14:27Porrō Jonathas nōn audierat cum adjūrāret pater ejus populum: extenditque summitātem virgae quam habēbat in manū, et intīnxit in favum mellis: et convertit manum suam ad ōs suum, et illūminātī sunt oculī ejus.But Jonathan had not heard when his father was putting the people under oath: and he stretched out the tip of the rod which he had in his hand, and dipped it into a honeycomb: and he turned his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were lit up. 1 Rg 14:28Respondēnsque ūnus dē populō, ait: Jūrejūrandō cōnstrīnxit pater tuus populum, dīcēns: Maledictus vir quī comēderit pānem hodiē.And one of the people, answering, said: "Your father has bound the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man who eats bread today." 1 Rg 14:28(Dēfēcerat autem populus.) Dīxitque Jonathas: Turbāvit pater meus terram: vīdistis ipsī quia illūminātī sunt oculī meī, eō quod gustāverim paululum dē melle istō: quantō magis sī comēdisset populus dē praedā inimīcōrum suōrum, quam reperit?(And the people had grown faint.) And Jonathan said: "My father has troubled the land: you yourselves have seen that my eyes have been lit up, because I have tasted a little of this honey: how much more if the people had eaten of the plunder of their enemies, which it found?
1 Rg 14:30Nōnne mājor plaga facta fuisset in Philisthiim?Would not a greater slaughter have been made among the Philistines?" 1 Rg 14:31Percussērunt ergō in diē illā Philisthaeōs ā Machmīs ūsque in Ajalon.So they struck the Philistines on that day from Michmash as far as Aijalon. 1 Rg 14:31Dēfatīgātus est autem populus nimis: et versus ad praedam tulit ovēs, et bovēs, et vitulōs, et mactāvērunt in terrā: comēditque populus cum sanguine.And the people were wearied exceedingly: and turning to the plunder it took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and they slaughtered them on the ground: and the people ate with the blood. 1 Rg 14:33Nūntiāvērunt autem Saulī dīcentēs quod populus peccāsset Dominō, comedēns cum sanguine.And they announced to Saul, saying that the people had sinned against the Lord, eating with the blood. 1 Rg 14:33Quī ait: Praevāricātī estis: volvite ad mē jam nunc saxum grande.He said: "You have transgressed: roll to me right now a great stone." 1 Rg 14:34Et dīxit Saul: Dispergiminī in vulgus, et dīcite eīs ut addūcat ad mē ūnusquisque bovem suum et arietem, et occīdite super istud, et vēsciminī, et nōn peccābitis Dominō comedentēs cum sanguine.And Saul said: "Scatter yourselves among the crowd, and tell them that each one should bring to me his ox and ram, and slaughter them upon this, and eat, and you will not sin against the Lord eating with the blood."
1 Rg 14:34Addūxit itaque omnis populus ūnusquisque bovem in manū suā ūsque ad noctem: et occīdērunt ibi.And so all the people, each one, brought an ox in his hand until night: and they slaughtered them there. 1 Rg 14:35Aedificāvit autem Saul altāre Dominō, tuncque prīmum coepit aedificāre altāre Dominō.And Saul built an altar to the Lord, and then first he began to build an altar to the Lord. 1 Rg 14:36Et dīxit Saul: Irruāmus super Philisthaeōs nocte, et vāstēmus eōs ūsque dum illūcēscat māne, nec relinquāmus ex eīs virum.And Saul said: "Let us rush upon the Philistines by night, and lay them waste until the morning grows light, and let us not leave a man of them." 1 Rg 14:36Dīxitque populus: Omne quod bonum vidētur in oculīs tuīs, fac.And the people said: "Do everything which seems good in your eyes." 1 Rg 14:36Et ait sacerdōs: Accēdāmus hūc ad Deum.And the priest said: "Let us approach God here." 1 Rg 14:37Et cōnsuluit Saul Dominum: Num persequar Philisthiim?And Saul consulted the Lord: "Shall I pursue the Philistines? 1 Rg 14:37Sī trādēs eōs in manūs Isrāël?Will you hand them over into the hands of Israel?"
1 Rg 14:37Et nōn respondit eī in diē illā.And he did not answer him on that day. 1 Rg 14:38Dīxitque Saul: Applicāte hūc ūniversōs angulōs populī: et scītōte, et vidēte per quem acciderit peccātum hoc hodiē.And Saul said: "Bring near here all the corners of the people: and know, and see through whom this sin has happened today. 1 Rg 14:39Vīvit Dominus salvātor Isrāël, quia sī per Jonathan fīlium meum factum est, absque retractiōne moriētur.As the Lord lives, saviour of Israel, if it has been done through Jonathan my son, he shall die without retraction." 1 Rg 14:39Ad quod nūllus contrādīxit eī dē omnī populō.To which no one of all the people spoke against him. 1 Rg 14:40Et ait ad ūniversum Isrāël: Sēparāminī vōs in partem ūnam, et ego cum Jonathā fīliō meō erō in parte alterā.And he said to all Israel: "Separate yourselves into one part, and I with Jonathan my son will be in the other part." 1 Rg 14:40Responditque populus ad Saul: Quod bonum vidētur in oculīs tuīs, fac.And the people answered Saul: "Do what seems good in your eyes." 1 Rg 14:41Et dīxit Saul ad Dominum Deum Isrāël: Domine Deus Isrāël, dā indicium: quid est quod nōn responderīs servō tuō hodiē?And Saul said to the Lord God of Israel: "Lord God of Israel, give a sign: what is it that you have not answered your servant today?
1 Rg 14:41Sī in mē, aut in Jonathā fīliō meō, est inīquitās haec, dā ostēnsiōnem: aut sī haec inīquitās est in populō tuō, dā sānctitātem.If this iniquity is in me, or in Jonathan my son, give a showing: or if this iniquity is in your people, give holiness." 1 Rg 14:41Et dēprehēnsus est Jonathas et Saul: populus autem exīvit.And Jonathan and Saul were caught: but the people went out free. 1 Rg 14:42Et ait Saul: Mittite sortem inter mē et inter Jonathan fīlium meum.And Saul said: "Cast the lot between me and Jonathan my son." 1 Rg 14:42Et captus est Jonathas.And Jonathan was taken. 1 Rg 14:43Dīxit autem Saul ad Jonathan: Indicā mihi quid fēcerīs.And Saul said to Jonathan: "Tell me what you have done." 1 Rg 14:43Et indicāvit eī Jonathas, et ait: Gustāns gustāvī in summitāte virgae quae erat in manū meā, paululum mellis, et ecce ego morior.And Jonathan told him, and said: "Tasting, I tasted with the tip of the rod which was in my hand a little honey, and look, I am dying." 1 Rg 14:44Et ait Saul: Haec faciat mihi Deus, et haec addat, quia morte moriēris, Jonatha.And Saul said: "May God do these things to me, and add these things, for you shall die the death, Jonathan."
1 Rg 14:45Dīxitque populus ad Saul: Ergōnē Jonathas moriētur, quī fēcit salūtem hanc magnam in Isrāël?And the people said to Saul: "Shall Jonathan then die, who has wrought this great salvation in Israel? 1 Rg 14:45Hoc nefās est: vīvit Dominus, sī ceciderit capillus dē capite ejus in terram, quia cum Deō operātus est hodiē.This is an outrage: as the Lord lives, not a hair shall fall from his head to the ground, because he has worked with God today." 1 Rg 14:45Līberāvit ergō populus Jonathan, ut nōn morerētur.So the people freed Jonathan, so that he did not die. 1 Rg 14:46Recessitque Saul, nec persecūtus est Philisthiim: porrō Philisthiim abiērunt in loca sua.And Saul withdrew, and did not pursue the Philistines: and the Philistines went off to their own places. 1 Rg 14:47Et Saul, cōnfirmātō regnō super Isrāël, pugnābat per circuitum adversum omnēs inimīcōs ejus, contrā Moab, et fīliōs Ammōn, et Edom, et rēgēs Soba, et Philisthaeōs: et quōcumque sē verterat, superābat.And Saul, the kingdom having been made firm over Israel, fought round about against all his enemies, against Moab, and the sons of Ammon, and Edom, and the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines: and wherever he had turned himself, he overcame.
1 Rg 14:48Congregātōque exercitū, percussit Amalec, et ēruit Isrāël dē manū vāstātōrum ejus.And an army having been gathered, he struck Amalek, and rescued Israel from the hand of its plunderers. 1 Rg 14:49Fuērunt autem fīliī Saul, Jonathas, et Jessui, et Melchisua: et nōmina duārum fīliārum ejus, nōmen prīmogenitae Merob, et nōmen minōris Michol.And the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua: and the names of his two daughters, the name of the first-born Merab, and the name of the younger Michal. 1 Rg 14:50Et nōmen uxōris Saul Achinoam fīlia Achimaas: et nōmen prīncipis mīlitiae ejus Abner fīlius Ner, patruēlis Saul.And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the chief of his army Abner, son of Ner, Saul's cousin. 1 Rg 14:51Porrō Cis fuit pater Saul, et Ner pater Abner, fīlius Abiel.Now Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner, son of Abiel. 1 Rg 14:52Erat autem bellum potēns adversum Philisthaeōs omnibus diēbus Saul.And there was mighty war against the Philistines all the days of Saul. 1 Rg 14:52Nam quemcumque vīderat Saul virum fortem, et aptum ad praelium, sociābat eum sibi.For whatever strong man Saul had seen, and fit for battle, he would join him to himself.