1Samuel:14:24-35

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* And the men of Israel were distressed that day : for Saul had adjured the people , saying , Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening , that I may be avenged on mine enemies . So none of the people tasted any food . * And all they of the land came to a wood ya #ar #; and there was honey upon the ground . * And when the people were come into the wood ya #ar #, behold , the honey dropped ; but no man put his hand to his mouth : for the people feared the oath sh @buw #ah #. * 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 #H1706 , and put his hand to his mouth ; and his eyes were enlightened . * Then answered one of the people , and said , Thy father straitly charged # the people with an oath , saying , Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day . And the people were faint . * Then said Jonathan , My father hath troubled the land : see , I pray you , how mine eyes have been enlightened , because I tasted a little of this honey . * How much more , if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found ? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines ? * And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon : and the people were very faint . * And the people flew # upon the spoil , and took sheep tso #n #, and oxen , and calves , and slew them on the ground : and the people did eat them with the blood . * Then they told Saul Sha #uwl #, saying , Behold , the people sin against the LORD , in that they eat with the blood . And he said , Ye have transgressed : roll a great stone unto me this day . * And Saul said , Disperse yourselves among the people , and say unto them , Bring me hither every man his ox , and every man his sheep , and slay them here , and eat ; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood . And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night , and slew them there . * And Saul built an altar unto the LORD : the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD .

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