26<\/strong>. behold, the honey dropped<\/em> ] Lit. behold a stream of honey.<\/strong> Palestine is literally “a land flowing with milk and honey” (Exo 3:8<\/span>). Wild bees settle in vast numbers in the clefts of the limestone rocks and in the trees. Compare the statement of a traveller in India, where “the forests literally flow with honey, Large combs may be seen hanging in the trees as you pass along, full of honey.” Cp. Mat 3:4<\/span>. See Tristram’s Land of Israel<\/em>, p. 83. Kitto’s Bible Illustrations<\/em>, p. 190.<\/p>\n The honey dropped – <\/B>Rather, Behold a stream of honey. The same thing may be seen in Spain, where in woody and rocky ground copious streams of honey are often found.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 26<\/span>. The honey dropped<\/B><\/I>] It seems to have dropped from the trees<\/I> on the ground. Honey dews<\/I>, as they are called, are not uncommon in most countries; and this appears to have been something of this kind. I have seen honey<\/I> in considerable quantity on the trees<\/I> and long grass<\/I> in the fields, and have often eaten of it.<\/P> <\/p>\n The honey dropped.<\/B> It hath been observed by many travellers and writers, that bees do ofttimes settle themselves, and make their hives and honey, in the trunks of trees, or clefts of rocks, or holes of the earth; and this in divers countries, but eminently in this of Canaan; as may be gathered from Deu 32:13<\/span>; Psa 81:16<\/span>; whence it was called a land flowing with milk and honey<\/I>. <\/P> <\/p>\n And when the people came into the wood, behold, the honey dropped<\/strong>,…. Either from trees, which produced it; so Diodorus Siculus t 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 u 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” w, 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:<\/p>\n but no man put his hand to his mouth<\/strong>; that is, took not any of the honey and ate it, though it was so near at hand, and there was plenty of it:<\/p>\n for the people feared the oath<\/strong>: Saul adjured them by, or the imprecation he made on the person that should eat any food that day.<\/p>\n t Bibliothec. l. 17. p. 548. u Hesiod, Theogon. ver. 230. Vid. Diodor. Sic. ut supra. (Bibliothec. l. 17. p. 548.) w “ambulatio mellis”, Montanus; “itio mellis”, Drusius; so in Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. fab. 3. “—-jam flumina nectaris ibant”.<\/p>\n (26) Behold, the honey dropped.<\/strong>Literally,. Behold, a stream of honey. 26<\/strong>. <\/strong> The honey dropped <\/strong> Kitto quotes Mr. Roberts as saying: “Bees in the East are not, as in England, kept in hives; they are all in a wild state. The forests literally flow with honey; large combs may be seen hanging in the trees as you pass along, full of honey.” Dr. Thomson says: “I have explored densely wooded gorges in Hermon and in southern Lebanon where wild bees are still found both in trees and in the clefts of the rocks.”<\/p>\n 1Sa 14:26-27<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>And when the people were come into the wood, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> Wild honey, which was part of St. John Baptist’s food in the wilderness, may give us an idea of the great plenty of it in those deserts; and that consequently, by taking the hint of nature, and enticing the bees into hives and larger colonies, a much greater increase might be made of it, Accordingly Josephus (Bell. Jud. lib. 5: cap. 4.) calls Jericho <\/em> a country fertile in honey. <\/em>We find, moreover, that wild honey is often mentioned in Scripture. 1Sa 14:25-26<\/span>. Deu 32:13<\/span>. <\/span>Psa 81:16<\/span>. Job 20:17<\/span>. Diodorus Siculus, lib. 19: speaks of the wild honey, <\/em>that dropped from the trees; <\/em>which some have taken, perhaps too hastily, for a honey-dew only, or some liquid kind of manna: whereas bees are known to swarm, as well in the hollow trunks, and upon the branches of trees, as in the clifts of rocks: honey, therefore, may be equally expected from both places. See Dr. Shaw’s Travels, p. 337. Jonathan, who was ignorant of his father’s adjuration, being weary with the fatigue of the pursuit, eats some of the wild honey which abounded in the present wood; and his eyes were enlighted, i.e<\/em>. his spirits and strength, which were quite exhausted by long abstinence from food, so that he could scarcely see, were restored to him, and he became fresh and lively to proceed in the pursuit of the enemy: for it is a fact, that famine and fatigue, by weakening the spirits, dim the sight; and as all meat and drink refreshes and enlivens, so wine and honey, in a remarkable degree, produce this effect; for their spirits are both very subtile, and quickly diffuse themselves through the human frame. See Bishop Patrick, and Vossius de Orig. et Prog. Idol. lib. 4: cap. 69. <\/p>\n 1Sa 14:26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.<\/p>\n Ver. 26. Behold, the honey dropped.<\/strong> ] Hence Canaan is so oft called “a land flowing with milk and honey.” <\/p>\n <\/p>\n But no man put his hand to his mouth.<\/strong> ] It argued there was much power in that oath, when no man dared to touch one drop of this honey: so, to resist a strong temptation, argueth strong grace. Pliny mentioneth a certain country where the honey is poisonous, because sucked out of poisonous herbs. Such is the pleasure of sin; sweet, but deadly.<\/p>\n behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. <\/p>\n the people: Ecc 9:2 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Psa 19:10 – honeycomb Psa 81:16 – honey Mat 26:63 – I adjure<\/p>\n 14:26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the {m} oath.<\/p>\n (m) That is, the punishment if they break their oath.<\/p>\n And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath. 26. behold, the honey dropped ] Lit. behold a stream of honey. Palestine is literally “a land flowing with milk and honey” (Exo 3:8). 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