How much more if the people had freely taken their food from the goods of those who were fighting against them! would there not have been much greater destruction among the Philistines?
Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.
Then Jonathan said, My father has made trouble come on the land: now see how bright my eyes have become because I have taken a little of this honey.
That day they overcame the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were feeble from need of food.