The Lot Identifies Jonathan’s Sin

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Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.” They said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” Then the priest said, “Let us draw near here to God.”

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Saul asked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.

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Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been this day.

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For, as the LORD lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

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Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” The people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”

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Therefore Saul said to the LORD, the God of Israel, “Show the right.” Jonathan and Saul were chosen; but the people escaped.

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Saul said, “Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.” Jonathan was selected.

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Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!” Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.”

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Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”

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The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

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Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

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