1 Samuel 14:29

29 Entonces Jonatán dijo: Mi padre ha traído dificultades a esta tierra. Ved ahora cómo brillan mis ojos porque 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 Pero Jonatán no había oído cuando su padre puso al pueblo bajo juramento; por lo cual extendió la punta de la vara que llevaba en su mano, la metió en un panal de miel y se llevó la mano a la boca, y brillaron sus ojos.

28 Entonces uno del pueblo le habló, y dijo: Tu padre puso bajo estricto juramento al pueblo, diciendo: "Maldito sea el hombre que tome alimento hoy." Y el pueblo estaba desfallecido.

29 Entonces Jonatán dijo: Mi padre ha traído dificultades a esta tierra. Ved ahora cómo brillan mis ojos porque probé un poco de esta miel.

30 Cuánto más, si el pueblo hubiera comido hoy libremente del despojo que encontraron de sus enemigos. Pues hasta ahora la matanza entre los filisteos no ha sido grande.

31 Aquel día, después de herir a los filisteos desde Micmas hasta Ajalón, el pueblo estaba muy cansado.