1 Samuel 14:36
And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
The verse stands within the account of 1 Samuel 14, in which Jonathan and his armor-bearer held the conviction that the Lord could work deliverance for Israel by few just as readily as by many. Jonathan did not move carelessly but undertook his secret assault with prayer, asking God for direction through an agreed sign. That sign was to be found in the response of the enemy, and when the Philistines issued their challenge it was accepted as the token they had appointed beforehand.
Through that faithful venture God made Jonathan the instrument to begin Israel's deliverance from the Philistines. Saul, by contrast, was denied the honor of defeating the Philistines, and the loss came because of his presumptuous sin.