1 Samuel 14:27

Webster's Bible (1833)

But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

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  • 1 Sam 30:12 : 12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
  • 1 Sam 14:29 : 29 Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
  • 1 Sam 14:43 : 43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, behold, I must die.
  • Prov 25:26 : 26 Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, So is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

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  • 1 Sam 14:28-30
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    90%

    28Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day. The people were faint.

    29Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

    30How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now has there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 14:25-26
    2 verses
    88%

    25All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

    26When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

  • 1 Sam 14:43-45
    3 verses
    82%

    43Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, behold, I must die.

    44Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.

    45The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.

  • 1 Sam 14:1
    77%

    1Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he didn't tell his father.

  • Judg 14:8-9
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    8After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

    9He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.

  • 1 Sam 14:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.

    12The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel.

    13Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him.

  • 1 Sam 14:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few.

    7His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart: turn you, behold, I am with you according to your heart.

    8Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them.

  • Prov 24:13
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    13My son, eat honey, for it is good; The droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

  • 1 Sam 20:37-40
    4 verses
    72%

    37When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, Isn't the arrow beyond you?

    38Jonathan cried after the boy, Go fast! Hurry! Don't delay! Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

    39But the boy didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

    40Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go, carry them to the city.

  • 1 Sam 20:9-13
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    71%

    9Jonathan said, Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn't I tell you that?

    10Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance your father answer you roughly?

    11Jonathan said to David, Come, and let us go out into the field. They went out both of them into the field.

    12Jonathan said to David, Yahweh, the God of Israel, [be witness]: when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you?

    13Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.

  • 1 Sam 14:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn't know that Jonathan was gone.

    4Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

  • 1 Sam 13:22
    71%

    22So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

  • 1 Sam 20:34-35
    2 verses
    71%

    34So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

    35It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.

  • 1 Sam 23:16-18
    3 verses
    71%

    16Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

    17He said to him, Don't be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father knows.

    18They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    70%

    29and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

  • 1 Sam 19:2-4
    3 verses
    70%

    2Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you: now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself:

    3and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will commune with my father of you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.

    4Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you:

  • 1 Sam 14:17
    70%

    17Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

  • 2 Sam 1:22
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    22From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan didn't turn back, The sword of Saul didn't return empty.

  • 1 Sam 13:3
    69%

    3Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.

  • 1 Sam 14:21
    69%

    21Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

  • 1 Sam 19:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.

    7Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.

  • 1 Sam 14:39
    69%

    39For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

  • 1 Sam 18:1
    69%

    1It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

  • 1 Sam 20:2
    69%

    2He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."

  • 1 Sam 20:32
    69%

    32Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

  • 1 Sam 20:4
    68%

    4Then said Jonathan to David, Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.