1 Samuel 14:26

Webster's Bible (1833)

When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

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  • Eccl 9:2 : 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

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  • 1 Sam 14:24-25
    2 verses
    88%

    24The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted food.

    25All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

  • 1 Sam 14:27-30
    4 verses
    88%

    27But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

    28Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day. The people were faint.

    29Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

    30How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now has there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 14:43
    76%

    43Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, behold, I must die.

  • Judg 14:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

    9He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.

  • Prov 24:13
    71%

    13My son, eat honey, for it is good; The droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    71%

    29and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

  • 1 Sam 14:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he didn't tell his father.

    2Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;

  • 1 Sam 14:11-13
    3 verses
    70%

    11Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.

    12The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel.

    13Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him.

  • 1 Sam 13:22
    69%

    22So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

  • 1 Sam 23:18
    69%

    18They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

  • 1 Sam 14:8-9
    2 verses
    68%

    8Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them.

    9If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

  • Prov 25:16
    68%

    16Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, Lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

  • 1 Sam 14:6
    68%

    6Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few.

  • 1 Sam 14:21-22
    2 verses
    68%

    21Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

    22Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

  • 1 Sam 14:15
    68%

    15There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.

  • 1 Sam 11:7
    68%

    7He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whoever doesn't come forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.

  • 1 Sam 14:39
    68%

    39For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

  • Ezek 20:15
    68%

    15Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

  • Num 13:27
    68%

    27They told him, and said, We came to the land where you sent us; and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

  • Deut 26:15
    67%

    15Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Prov 27:7
    67%

    7A full soul loathes a honeycomb; But to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

  • Num 14:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8If Yahweh delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

    9Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: don't fear them.

  • Josh 5:6
    67%

    6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh: to whom Yahweh swore that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • 1 Sam 23:16
    67%

    16Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

  • 1 Sam 14:17
    67%

    17Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

  • 2 Sam 1:22
    67%

    22From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan didn't turn back, The sword of Saul didn't return empty.

  • 1 Sam 19:6
    67%

    6Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.

  • 1 Sam 14:45
    67%

    45The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.

  • Judg 14:18
    67%

    18The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, You wouldn't have found out my riddle.

  • Exod 13:5
    67%

    5It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.

  • Isa 7:22
    67%

    22and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.

  • 2 Sam 3:35
    67%

    35All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun be down.

  • Num 11:33
    67%

    33While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.

  • Deut 26:9
    66%

    9and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • 1 Sam 14:32
    66%

    32and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

  • Deut 1:25
    66%

    25They took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.

  • Exod 16:15
    66%

    15When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."

  • Ps 19:10
    66%

    10More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

  • Jer 32:22
    66%

    22and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;