1 Samuel 14:30

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!

1 Samuel 14:30 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 14:30

How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of
the spoil of their enemies which they found?
&c.] That is, had they been, allowed eat freely of the provisions, of bread, wine they found in the enemy's camp, they would have been much more refreshed and strengthened than it could be supposed he was with eating a little honey; if that had had such an effect upon him, of what service would a full meal have been to the people?

for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the
Philistines?
the people would have had more strength to smite them, and would have pursued them with greater ardour and swiftness, and so have made a greater slaughter among them than they had; he intimates that Saul's end would have been better answered by suffering the people to eat, than by forbidding them.

1 Samuel 14:30 In-Context

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,

32 echaron mano del botín. Agarraron ovejas, vacas y terneros, los degollaron sobre el suelo, y se comieron la carne con todo y sangre.