1 Samuel 14:43

Tell me In like manner Joshua moved Achan to confess, when the lot had fixed upon him as the "troubler of Israel" (Joshua 7:19).

I did but taste, &c. I did certainly taste … here I am: I will die. Jonathan's words are not a lamentation over his hard fate, as the E. V. implies, but a confession that the guilt, though involuntary, was his, and an heroic expression of readiness to sacrifice his life for his country even in the hour off victory.