1 Samuel 14:36–42

³⁶Now Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and plunder them until the morning light; and let us not leave a man of them.”

And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.”

Then the priest said, “Let us draw near to God here.”

³⁷So Saul ^yasked counsel of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But ^zHe did not answer him that day. ³⁸And Saul said, ^a“Come over here, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see what this sin was today. ³⁹For ^bas the Lord lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But not a man among all the people answered him. ⁴⁰Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and my son Jonathan and I will be on the other side.”

And the people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”

⁴¹Therefore Saul said to the Lord God of Israel, ^c“Give ⁹a perfect lot.” ^dSo Saul and Jonathan were taken, but the people escaped. ⁴²And Saul said, “Cast lots between my son Jonathan and me.” So Jonathan was taken.