the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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1 Samuel 14:26
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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.
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.
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.
