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14 That first time Jonathan and his armor-bearer slaughtered about twenty of them, all within half the area an ox could plow.

15 The army in the fields and all the people in the outposts and the raiding parties were seized with panic, and they were shaking so much that even the ground quaked, for it was a tremendous panic.

16 Saul’s watchmen in Gibeah of Benjamin saw the army melting away in all directions.

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14 In that first attack Jonathan and his armor-bearer killed some twenty men in an area of about half an acre.

Israel Routs the Philistines

15 Then panic(A) struck the whole army—those in the camp and field, and those in the outposts and raiding(B) parties—and the ground shook. It was a panic sent by God.[a]

16 Saul’s lookouts(C) at Gibeah in Benjamin saw the army melting away in all directions.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 14:15 Or a terrible panic