Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:26

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 .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 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".

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 14:26 In-Context

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 .

28 Bǎixìng zhōng yǒu yī rén duì tā shuō , nǐ fùqin céng jiào bǎixìng yán yán dì qǐshì shuō , jīnrì chī shénme de , bì shòu zhòuzǔ . yīncǐ bǎixìng jiù pí fá le .