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1 Samuel 14:26

Y al entrar el pueblo en el bosque, he aquí que la miel fluía, pero nadie se llevó la mano a la boca, porque el pueblo temía el juramento.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jonathan;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Forests;   Honey;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Philistines;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jonathan;   Oath;   Philistia, philistines;   Saul, king of israel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Land (of Israel);   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Honey;   Philistines;   Saul;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adjuration;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   Jearim;   Mouth;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;   Honey;   Israel;   Jonathan;   Michmash;   Ner;   Philistines;   Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   Urim and Thummim;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bee;   Jonathan ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jonathan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jon'athan,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jephthah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Drop, Dropping;   Forest;   Honey;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ban;   Jonathan, Jehonathan;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Samuel 14:26"> 26 Entr� pues el pueblo en el bosque, y he aqu� que la miel corr�a; mas ninguno hubo que llegase la mano � su boca: porque el pueblo tem�a el juramento.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Entr�, pues, el pueblo en el bosque, y he aqu� que la miel corr�a; pero no hubo quien llegase la mano a su boca; porque el pueblo tem�a el juramento.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Entr�, pues , el pueblo en el bosque, y he aqu� que la miel corr�a; mas ninguno hubo que llegase la mano a su boca; porque el pueblo tem�a el juramento.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the people: Ecclesiastes 9:2

Reciprocal: Psalms 19:10 - honeycomb Psalms 81:16 - honey Matthew 26:63 - I adjure

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the people came into the wood, behold, the honey dropped,.... Either from trees, which produced it; so Diodorus Siculus t speaks of trees in some countries which produce honey; or from the sugar canes, as Jarchi; or rather from the honeycombs which were framed in trees by bees; so Hesiod u speaks of bees making their nests or combs in trees. Ben Gersom thinks that bee hives were placed here in rows by the wayside, from whence the honey flowed; or "went" w, or there was a going of it; perhaps the combs being pressed by the Philistines as they fled: the land of Canaan was a land flowing with milk and honey:

but no man put his hand to his mouth; that is, took not any of the honey and ate it, though it was so near at hand, and there was plenty of it:

for the people feared the oath: Saul adjured them by, or the imprecation he made on the person that should eat any food that day.

t Bibliothec. l. 17. p. 548. u Hesiod, Theogon. ver. 230. Vid. Diodor. Sic. ut supra. (Bibliothec. l. 17. p. 548.) w הלך דבש "ambulatio mellis", Montanus; "itio mellis", Drusius; so in Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. fab. 3. "----jam flumina nectaris ibant".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The honey dropped - Rather, “Behold a stream of honey.” The same thing may be seen in Spain, where in woody and rocky ground copious streams of honey are often found.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 14:26. The honey dropped — It seems to have dropped from the trees on the ground. Honey dews, as they are called, are not uncommon in most countries; and this appears to have been something of this kind. I have seen honey in considerable quantity on the trees and long grass in the fields, and have often eaten of it.


 
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