Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:25

25 Zhòng mín jìnrù shùlín , jiàn yǒu mì zaì de shàng .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:25 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 14:25

And all they of the land came to a wood
Which lay between Bethaven and Aijalon; by whom are meant not all the inhabitants of the land of Israel, but all that came with Saul and Jonathan, and that joined them in the pursuit:

and there was honey upon the ground;
which dropped upon it, as in the following verse, or where it was produced by bees; for Aristotle ^F18 reports, that bees in some places make their combs upon the ground; this was wild honey, which Diodorus Siculus ^F19 speaks of as common in Arabia, and which perhaps John the Baptist ate of, ( Matthew 3:4 ) . Jarchi says, this was the honey of canes, or sugar canes, which grew in the land of Israel; and affirms from Nathan an Ishmaelite, that in the Ishmaelitish or Arabic language they call honey, sugar; but neither of these can be proved.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 Hist. Animal. l. 5. c. 22.
F19 Bibliothec. l. 19. p. 731.

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:25 In-Context

23 Nà rì , Yēhéhuá shǐ Yǐsèliè rén déshèng , yīzhí zhàn dào bǎi yà wén .

24 Sǎoluó jiào bǎixìng qǐshì shuō , fán bù dĕng dào wǎnshang xiàng dírén bào wán le qiú chī shénme de , bì shòu zhòuzǔ . yīncǐ zhè rì bǎixìng méiyǒu chī shénme , jiù jíqí kùn beì .

25 Zhòng mín jìnrù shùlín , jiàn yǒu mì zaì de shàng .

26 Tāmen jìn le shùlín , jiàn yǒu mì liú xià lái , què méi yǒu rén gǎn yòng shǒu qǔ mì rù kǒu , yīnwei tāmen pà nà shì yán .

27 Yuēnádān méiyǒu tīngjian tā fùqin jiào bǎixìng qǐshì , suǒyǐ shēnshǒu zhōng de zhàng , yòng zhàng tóu zhàn zaì fēng fáng lǐ , zhuǎn shǒu sòng rù kǒu neì , yǎnjing jiù míngliàng le .