1 Samuel 14:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.

1 Samuel 14:25 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 9:28
Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
Numbers 13:27
And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Exodus 3:8
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Matthew 3:4-5
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 24-35)

We have here an account of the distress of the children of Israel, even in the day of their triumphs. Such alloys are all present joys subject to. And such obstructions does many a good cause meet with, even when it seems most prosperous, through the mismanagement of instruments. I. Saul forbade the people, under the penalty of a curse, to taste any food that day, 1 Sam. 14:24. Here we will suppos…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 25)

25. all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey--The honey is described as “upon the ground,” “dropping” from the trees, and in honeycombs--indicating it to be bees’ honey. “Bees in the East are not, as in England, kept in hives; they are all in a wild state. The forests literally flow with honey; large combs may be seen hanging on the trees as you pass along, full of honey” [Roberts]…