1 Samuel 14:41-43

Common English Bible

⁴¹ Then Saul asked the Lord God of Israel, “Why haven’t you answered your servant today? If the wrongdoing is mine or my son Jonathan’s, respond with Urim, but if the wrongdoing belongs to your people Israel, respond with Thummim.”^[a] Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, and the troops were cleared.

⁴² Then Saul said, “Decide between me and my son Jonathan.”^[b] And Jonathan was selected.

⁴³ “Tell me what you’ve done,” Saul said to Jonathan.

So Jonathan told him. “I only took a very small taste of honey on the end of my staff,” he said. “And now I’m supposed to die?”