A reading from 1 Samuel

One day Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who carried his armor,

Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side.

But he did not tell his father.

Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibia in the pomegranate cave at Migrant.

The people who were with him were about 600 men,

including Ahijah, the son of Ahaita, Iqabod's brother, son of Phineas, son of Eli, the priest of the

Lord in Shiloh, wearing an Ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone. Within the

passes by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison,

there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was

Bozes, and the name of the other, Sina. The one crag rose on the north in front of McMash,

and the other on the south in front of Giba. Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor,

Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised.

It may be that the Lord will work for us,

for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.

And his armor bearer said to him,

Do all that is in your heart, do as you wish.

Behold, I am with you heart and soul.

Then Jonathan said, behold, we will cross over to the men and we will show ourselves to them.

If they say to us, wait until we come to you, then we will stand still in our place,

and we will not go up to them. But if they say, come up to us, then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hand, and this shall be the sign to us. So both of them showed themselves to the

garrison of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they

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