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Proverbs 24:13
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Honey is good for you, my children, and it tastes sweet.Bible Study Resources
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Eat honey, my son, for it is good,and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;
My son, eat honey, for it is good; The droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
My son, eat honey, for it is good; Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;
My child, eat honey because it is good. Honey from the honeycomb tastes sweet.
My son, eat honey, because it is good, And the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
My son, eat honey, for it is good; The droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.
Eat honey, my son, for it is good,Indeed, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
My son, eat honey, for it is good; honeycomb drippings are sweet to your taste.
Eat honey, my son, for it is good; and a honeycomb is sweet to thy taste:
My son, eat honey; it is good. Honey straight from the honeycomb is the sweetest.
My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste.
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My child, eat honey; it is good. And just as honey from the comb is sweet on your tongue,My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the dripping of the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;
My sonne, thou eatest hony & ye swete hony cobe, because it is good & swete in thy mouth.
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:
My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste;
My sonne, eate thou honie, because it is good, and the honie combe, which is sweete to thy taste.
My sonne, eate thou hony because it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth:
My son, eat honey, for the honeycomb is good, that thy throat may be sweetened.
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
Mi sone, ete thou hony, for it is good; and an honycomb ful swete to thi throte.
My son, eat honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honey-comb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:
Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
My son, eat honey because it is good, And the honeycomb which is sweet to your taste;
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste.
My son, eat honey, for it is good. Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good, - and droppings from the comb because they are sweet to thy palate:
Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.
My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
Eat my son, honey that [is] good, And the honeycomb -- sweet to thy palate.
26 Eat honey, dear child—it's good for you— and delicacies that melt in your mouth. Likewise knowledge, and wisdom for your soul— Get that and your future's secured, your hope is on solid rock.
My son, eat honey, for it is good, Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;
Contextual Overview
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Honey is good for you, my children, and it tastes sweet. 14 Wisdom is like honey for your life— if you find it, your future is bright.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
eat: Proverbs 25:16, Proverbs 25:27, Song of Solomon 5:1, Isaiah 7:15, Matthew 3:4
to thy taste: Heb. upon thy palate
Reciprocal: Leviticus 2:11 - honey Nehemiah 8:12 - because Psalms 19:10 - sweeter Psalms 119:103 - sweet Proverbs 2:10 - General Proverbs 16:24 - an Proverbs 22:18 - it is Song of Solomon 4:11 - honey
Cross-References
So the servant gave Abraham his word that he would do everything he had been told to do.
Soon after that, the servant loaded ten of Abraham's camels with valuable gifts. Then he set out for the city in northern Syria, where Abraham's brother Nahor lived.
When he got there, he let the camels rest near the well outside the city. It was late afternoon, the time when the women came out for water.
while I am here at the well. When a young woman comes out to get water, I'll ask her to give me a drink.
when the seven daughters of Jethro, the priest of Midian, came up to water their father's sheep and goats.
Even those who carry water to the animals will tell you, "The Lord has won victories, and so has Israel." Then the Lord 's people marched down to the town gates
As they were going up the hill to the town, they met some young women coming out to get water, and the two men said to them, "We're looking for the man who can see visions. Is he in town?"
Let the Lord lead you and trust him to help.
Always let him lead you, and he will clear the road for you to follow.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good,.... It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not only by children, but grown persons; and was very nourishing, strengthening, and refreshing to them, as Samson, Jonathan, John the Baptist, and others; and is good for medicine, is healthful and salutary, and useful in many diseases: it is said m to conduce much to prolong life and preserve from diseases; it has been observed that those who have much used it have lived to a great age;
and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste; because it is so, as all honey is, and especially that which is immediately squeezed or drops from the honeycomb; this is said not so much on account of honey, and the eating of that, as for what follows concerning the knowledge of wisdom, which is comparable to it for pleasure and profit; see
Proverbs 16:24 n.
m Athenaei Deipnosophist. l. 2. c. 7. p. 46, 47. so Pierius Valerian. apud Steeb. Coelum Sephirot Heb. c. 7. s. 5. p. 132. n Vid. Maimon. Moreh Nevochim, par. 1. c. 30. p. 37.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Honey entered largely into the diet of Hebrew children Isaiah 7:15, so that it was as natural an emblem for the purest and simplest wisdom, as the “sincere milk of the word” was to the New Testament writers. The learner hears what seems to be a rule of diet - then Proverbs 24:14 the parable is explained.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 24:13. And the honey-comb — I have often had occasion to remark how much finer the flavour of honey is in the honey-comb than it is after it has been expressed from it, and exposed to the action of the air. But it has been asserted that the honey-comb is never eaten; it must be by those who have no acquaintance with the apiary. I have seen the comb with its contained honey eaten frequently, and of it I have repeatedly partaken. And that our Lord ate it, is evident from Luke 24:42. Nor can any man who has not eaten it in this way feel the full force of the allusions to the honey-comb and its sweetness in several parts of the sacred writings. See 1 Samuel 14:27; Psalms 19:10; Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 16:24; Proverbs 27:7; Song of Solomon 4:11; Song of Solomon 5:1; and the place before us.
