1 Samuel 14:25

New English Translation

Now the whole army entered the forest and there was honey on the ground.

Cross References

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Proverbs 25:16

When you find honey, eat only what is sufficient for you, lest you become stuffed with it and vomit it up.

Numbers 13:27

They told Moses, “We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

Deuteronomy 9:28

Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say, “The Lord was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the desert.”

Judges 14:9

He scooped it up with his hands and ate it as he walked along. When he returned to his father and mother, he offered them some and they ate it. But he did not tell them he had scooped the honey out of the lion’s carcass.

1 Samuel 14:24

Now the men of Israel were hard pressed that day, for Saul had made the army agree to this oath: “Cursed be the man who eats food before evening! I will get my vengeance on my enemies!” So no one in the army ate anything.

1 Samuel 14:26

When the army entered the forest, they saw the honey flowing, but no one ate any of it, for the army was afraid of the oath.