SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:26
Entró, pues , el pueblo en el bosque, y he aquí que la miel corría; mas ninguno hubo que llegase la mano a su boca; porque el pueblo temía el juramento.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 14:26
Verse 26. The honey dropped] It seems to have dropped from the trees on the ground. Honey dews, as they are called, are not uncommon in most countries; and this appears to have been something of this kind. I have seen honey in considerable quantity on the trees and long grass in the fields, and have often eaten of it.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 26. And when the people came into the wood, behold, the honey dropped , etc.] Either from trees, which produced it; so Diodorus Siculus speaks of trees in some countries which produce honey; or from the sugar canes, as Jarchi; or rather from the honeycombs which were framed in trees by bees; so Hesiod speaks of bees making their nests or combs in trees. Ben Gersom thinks that bee hives were placed here in rows by the wayside, from whence the honey flowed; or “went” f277 , or there was a going of it; perhaps the combs being pressed by the Philistines as they fled: the land of Canaan was a land flowing with milk and honey: but no man put his hand to his mouth ; that is, took not any of the honey and ate it, though it was so near at hand, and there was plenty of it: for the people feared the oath : Saul adjured them by, or the imprecation he made on the person that should eat any food that day.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 24-35 - Saul's severe order was very unwise; if it gained time, it los strength for the pursuit. Such is the nature of our bodies, that dail work cannot be done without daily bread, which therefore our Father in heaven graciously gives. Saul was turning aside from God, and now he begins to build altars, being then most zealous, as many are, for the form of godliness when he was denying the power of it.
Original Hebrew
ויבא 935 העם 5971 אל 413 היער 3293 והנה 2009 הלך 1982 דבשׁ 1706 ואין 369 משׂיג 5381 ידו 3027 אל 413 פיו 6310 כי 3588 ירא 3372 העם 5971 את 853 השׁבעה׃ 7621
