1 Samuel 14:25 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 14:25

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

And all they of the land have come into a forest, and there is honey on the face of the field;

DBT

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

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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7 verses on the floor

Psalms 81:16
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Judges 14:9
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
Numbers 13:27
And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Exodus 3:8
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Deuteronomy 9:28
Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

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all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey--The honey is described as "upon the ground," "dropping" from the trees, and in honeycombs--indicating it to be bees' honey. "Bees in the East are not, as in England, kept in hives; they are all in a wild state.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Those are worthy of the name of Israelites that can deny themselves and their own appetites even when they are most craving, and the delights of sense most tempting, for fear of guilt and a curse, and the table becoming a snare.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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H170654× in canon H329359× in canon H7704334× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

1SA 14:25EXO 3:8 EXO 3:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1SA 14:25EXO 3:8 EXO 13:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1SA 14:25EXO 3:8 GEN 50:24
1SA 14:25EXO 3:8 GEN 15:18-21
1SA 14:25EXO 3:8 DEU 1:25
1SA 14:25NUM 13:27 EXO 3:8
1SA 14:25NUM 13:27 EXO 33:3
1SA 14:25DEU 9:28 NUM 14:16

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