1 Samuel 14:29

29 —Mi padre le ha causado un gran daño al país —respondió Jonatán—. Miren cómo me volvió el color al rostro cuando probé un poco de esta miel.

1 Samuel 14:29 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 14:29

Then said Jonathan, my father hath troubled the land
The people of the land, as the Targum, the soldiers in his army; afflicted and distressed them, and made them uneasy in their minds, like troubled waters; the Arabic version is,

``my father hath sinned against the people;''

hath done them injury by forbidding them to eat. This was not wisely said by Jonathan; how much soever his father was to be blamed, it did not become him as a son thus to reflect upon him, and it might have tended to mutiny and sedition:

see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted
a little of this honey;
the benefit he received by it was very visible; it might easily be discerned that he was greatly refreshed with it, and his spirits invigorated by it; it was to be seen in the cheerfulness of his countenance, and the briskness of his eyes: and he suggests it would have had the same effect upon the people, had they eaten of it, as he had done.

1 Samuel 14:29 In-Context

27 Sin embargo, Jonatán, que no había oído a su padre poner al ejército bajo juramento, alargó la vara que llevaba en la mano, hundió la punta en un panal de miel, y se la llevó a la boca. En seguida se le iluminó el rostro.

28 Pero uno de los soldados le advirtió:—Tu padre puso al ejército bajo un juramento solemne, diciendo: “¡Maldito el que coma algo hoy!” Y por eso los soldados desfallecen.

29 —Mi padre le ha causado un gran daño al país —respondió Jonatán—. Miren cómo me volvió el color al rostro cuando probé un poco de esta miel.

30 ¡Imagínense si todo el ejército hubiera comido del botín que se le arrebató al enemigo! ¡Cuánto mayor habría sido el estrago causado a los filisteos!

31 Aquel día los israelitas mataron filisteos desde Micmás hasta Ayalón. Y como los soldados estaban exhaustos,