1 Samuel 14:14

within as it were a half acre of land which a yoke of oxen might plow Lit. in about half a furrow of a yoke of land. "A yoke of land" may denote such a piece of land as a yoke of oxen would plough in one day, a natural measure for an agricultural people to use. "The furrow of a yoke" will then denote the length of one side of such a square measure. The point appears to be that the garrison was cut to pieces in a comparatively short distance.

The Sept. however (unless its rendering is mere conjecture) represents a different reading: "And the first slaughter … was with darts and slings and stones of the field." But Jonathan at any rate was better armed (1 Samuel 13:22), and it is hard to see the point of mentioning the weapons with which the firstslaughter was accomplished.