1 Samuel 14:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ All the troops came upon a honeycomb, and there was honey on the ground.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ And all the people of the land came to a wood, and there was honey on the ground.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey upon the ground.

Common English Bible

²⁵ The troops came across a honeycomb with honey on the ground.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ 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

²⁵ 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 have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest, having too much, you vomit it up.

Numbers 13:27

And they reported to him and said, “We came to the land to which you sent us; it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Deuteronomy 9:28

lest the land from which you have brought us say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them and because he hated them, he has brought them out to let them die in the wilderness.”

Judges 14:9

He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them, and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.

1 Samuel 14:24

Now Saul committed a very rash act on that day. He had laid an oath on the troops, saying, “Cursed be anyone who eats food before it is evening and I have been avenged on my enemies.” So none of the troops tasted food.

1 Samuel 14:26

When the troops came upon the honeycomb, the honey was dripping out, but they did not put their hands to their mouths, for they feared the oath.