Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;
1 Samuel 14:27 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised However, Jonathan had not heard his father make the troops swear the oath. He reached out with the end of the staff he was carrying and dipped it into the honeycomb. When he ate the honey, he had renewed energy. , Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But Jonathan had not heard when his father charged the people with the oath. So he dipped the end of the rod in his hand into a honeycomb and put it to his mouth, and his [weary] eyes brightened. American Standard Version (1901) But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. Common English Bible But Jonathan hadn’t heard his father make the people swear the pledge, so he dipped the end of the staff he was carrying into the honeycomb. When he ate some his eyes lit up. Catholic Public Domain Version But Jonathan had not heard that his father had bound the people to an oath. And so he extended the top of the staff that he was holding in his hand, and he dipped it in a honeycomb. And he turned his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were brightened. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people: and he put forth the end of the rod, which he had in his hand, and dipt it in a honeycomb. And he carried his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. |
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;
A righteous person who yields to the wicked is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.
Then one of the troops said, ‘Your father made the troops solemnly swear, “The man who eats food today is cursed,” and the troops are exhausted.’
Jonathan replied, ‘My father has brought trouble to the land. Just look at how I have renewed energy because I tasted a little of this honey.
Saul commanded him, ‘Tell me what you did.’ Jonathan told him, ‘I tasted a little honey with the end of the staff I was carrying. I am ready to die! ’
Then they gave him some pressed figs and two clusters of raisins. After he ate he revived, for he hadn’t eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.