1 Samuel 14:25 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey upon the ground.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And all the people of the land came to a wood, and there was honey on the ground.

American Standard Version (1901)

And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey upon the ground.

Common English Bible

The troops came across a honeycomb with honey on the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And all the common people went into a forest, in which there was honey on the surface of the field.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And all the common people came into a forest, in which there was honey upon the ground.

1 Samuel 14:25 Cross References

Exodus 3:8

and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Proverbs 25:16

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee; Lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Numbers 13:27

And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

Deuteronomy 9:28

lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

Judges 14:9

And he took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went, and he came to his father and mother, and gave unto them, and they did eat: but he told them not that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.

1 Samuel 14:24

And the men of Israel were distressed that day: but Saul adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted food.

1 Samuel 14:26

And when the people were come unto the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.