So when Saul set out with the soldiers, he said, "God will test you with a river, whoever drinks from it is not with me, and whoever does not taste from it except one scoop with his hand is with me." They all drank from it, except a few of them. So when he and those who acknowledged with him crossed it, they said, "We have no power today against Goliath and his soldiers!" But the ones who understood that they would meet God said, "How many a time has a small group beaten a large group by God's leave, and God is with the patient ones!"
Translation endnotes
[2:249] For the Biblical account of this test, see the Old Testament, Judges 7:1-8. For a similar promise, see the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 20:1-4.