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A single confidant and companion was all that he thought of—his armour-bearer, or aide-de-camp.

Might he not work that day by Jonathan and his armour-bearer, and, after all, only produce a new chapter in that history which had already shown so many wonderful interpositions?

When inquiry was made as to who were absent, Jonathan and his armour-bearer alone were missed.

The Jews have a tradition that he was Saul’s armour-bearer at the battle of Gilboa, and that the sword by which he and his master fell, was no other than that which had slain the priests of the Lord.

It was something that his armour-bearer neither flinched nor remonstrated.