1 Samuel 14:16
And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another. And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.
Saul's watchmen at Gibeah looked out and saw the Philistine multitude in confusion, melting away as its numbers diminished. The melting away was the Philistines fighting and striking down and killing one another. In their confusion they mistook one another for enemies. At the time the confusion was seen, no Israelite was known to be missing. The moment marks when Saul's men noticed that the enemy was being routed and Israel was being delivered, though they did not yet know that Jonathan and his armor-bearer had begun the attack.
The confusion was the panic that followed the attack by Jonathan and his armor-bearer. That panic was intensified by a miraculous earthquake, which the Philistines mistook for an attack by a great army. Jonathan, moved by a divine impulse, believed the Lord could work by many or by few, and with his armor-bearer, also a man of faith and prayer, planned a secret attack with earnest prayer and an agreed sign to know how to proceed. Their threading through the gorge, acceptance of the enemy challenge as the token of divine prospering, climb by a secret difficult path to an inaccessible cliff, and slaying of the surprised sentinels began what the watchmen saw.
The sudden collapse of the enemy camp revealed God's intervention bringing deliverance for Israel through Jonathan. The verse shows God's rebuke of Saul's perversity and His lesson of humility and faith to Israel, for because of Saul's sin in his presumptuous offering the Lord would not give him the honor of vanquishing the Philistines, but chose Jonathan, the king's son who feared the Lord, as the instrument to deliver Israel.