Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them.
      4. Providence gave him the sign he expected, and he answered the signal. He and his armour-bearer did not surprise the Philistines when they were asleep, but discovered themselves to them by day-light, 1 Samuel 14:11; 1 Samuel 14:11. The guards of the Philistines, (1.) Disdained them, upbraided them with the cowardice of many of their people, and looked upon them to be of the regiment of sneakers: Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of their holes. If some of Christ's soldiers play the coward, others that play the man may perhaps be upbraided with it. (2.) They defied them (1 Samuel 14:12; 1 Samuel 14:12): Come, and we will show you a thing, as if they came like children to gaze about them; but meaning, as Goliath (1 Samuel 17:44; 1 Samuel 17:44), that they would give them as meat to the fowls of the air. They bantered them, not doubting but to make a prey of them. This greatly emboldened Jonathan. With it he encouraged his servant; he had spoken with uncertainty (1 Samuel 14:6; 1 Samuel 14:6): It may be the Lord will work for us; but now he speaks with assurance (1 Samuel 14:12; 1 Samuel 14:12): The Lord has delivered them, not into our hands (he sought not his own glory), but into the hand of Israel, for he aimed at nothing but the advantage of the public. His faith being thus strengthened, no difficulty can stand before him; he climbs up the rock upon all four (1 Samuel 14:13; 1 Samuel 14:13), though he has nothing to cover him, nor any but his own servant to second him, nor any human probability of any thing but death before him.