1 Samuel 14:26

26 Chegando, pois, o povo ao bosque, viu correr o mel; todavia ninguém chegou a mão � boca, porque o povo temia a conjuração.

1 Samuel 14:26 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 14:26

And when the people came into the wood, behold, the honey
dropped
Either from trees, which produced it; so Diodorus Siculus

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 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 ^F21 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" ^F23, 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.

F20 Bibliothec. l. 17. p. 548.
F21 Hesiod, Theogon. ver. 230. Vid. Diodor. Sic. ut supra. (Bibliothec. l. 17. p. 548.)
F23 (vbd Klh) "ambulatio mellis", Montanus; "itio mellis", Drusius; so in Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. fab. 3. "----jam flumina nectaris ibant".

1 Samuel 14:26 In-Context

24 Ora, os homens de Israel estavam já exaustos naquele dia, porquanto Saul conjurara o povo, dizendo: Maldito o homem que comer pão antes da tarde, antes que eu me vingue de meus inimigos. Pelo que todo o povo se absteve de comer.

25 Mas todo o povo chegou a um bosque, onde havia mel � flor da terra.

26 Chegando, pois, o povo ao bosque, viu correr o mel; todavia ninguém chegou a mão � boca, porque o povo temia a conjuração.

27 Jônatas, porém, não tinha ouvido quando seu pai conjurara o povo; pelo que estendeu a ponta da vara que tinha na mão, e a molhou no favo de mel; e, ao chegar a mão � boca, aclararam-se-lhe os olhos.

28 Então disse um do povo: Teu pai solenemente conjurou o povo, dizendo: Maldito o homem que comer pão hoje. E o povo ainda desfalecia.