“If they say this to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’ then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them.”
1 Samuel 14:9 (WEB)
Context Reading
7His armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Go, and behold, I am with you according to your heart.” 8Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them. 9If they say this to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’ then we will stand still in our place and will not go up to them. 10But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up, for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us.” 11Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, “Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!”