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Proverbs 24:13
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My son, eat honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
My child, eat honey because it is good. Honey from the honeycomb tastes sweet.
Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honey-comb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:
My son, eat honey, for it is good; The droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
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, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
Mi sone, ete thou hony, for it is good; and an honycomb ful swete to thi throte.
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
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Honey is good for you, my children, and it tastes sweet.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 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 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 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 sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.
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 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.
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.
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 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;
Eat my son, honey that [is] good, And the honeycomb -- sweet to thy palate.
My sonne, thou eatest hony & ye swete hony cobe, because it is good & swete in thy mouth.
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;
My son, eat honey because it is good, And the honeycomb which is sweet to your taste;
My son, eat honey, for it is good, Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;
Eat honey, my son, for it is good,Indeed, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;
Contextual Overview
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 took an oath by putting his hand under the thigh of his master, Abraham. He swore to follow Abraham's instructions.
Then he loaded ten of Abraham's camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham's brother Nahor had settled.
He made the camels kneel beside a well just outside the town. It was evening, and the women were coming out to draw water.
See, I am standing here beside this spring. This is my request. When a young woman comes to draw water, I will say to her, "Please give me a little drink of water from your jug."
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters who came as usual to draw water and fill the water troughs for their father's flocks.
Listen to the village musicians gathered at the watering holes. They recount the righteous victories of the Lord and the victories of his villagers in Israel. Then the people of the Lord marched down to the city gates.
As they were climbing the hill to the town, they met some young women coming out to draw water. So Saul and his servant asked, "Is the seer here today?"
Commit everything you do to the Lord . Trust him, and he will help you.
Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink."
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.
