1 Samuel 14:25 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 14:25

Then all the troops entered the forest, and there was honey on the ground.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

All they of the land - literally, all the land, probably meaning all those named in 1Sa 14:21-22, who now flocked to the wood as a rendezvous.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
הָאָ֖רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the land	H776 →
בָּ֣אוּ	Ba.'u	they went	H935 →
בַיָּ֑עַר	vai.Ya.'ar	in the forest	H3293 →
וַיְהִ֥י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
דְבַ֖שׁ	de.Vash	honey	H1706 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
פְּנֵ֥י	pe.Nei	[the] surface of	H6440 →
הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃	ha.sa.Deh	the field	H7704 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
leads to
- Exodus 3:17
  And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Exodus 13:5
  And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Genesis 50:24
  Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…
- Genesis 15:18–21
  On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- Deuteronomy 1:25
  They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
Through
Numbers 13:27
And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
leads to
- Exodus 3:8
  I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
- Exodus 33:3
  Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
Through
Deuteronomy 9:28
Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them,…
leads to
- Numbers 14:16
  ‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

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Where the connections lead

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About 1 Samuel