28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father made the people to swear, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth sustenance this day: and the people were [a]faint.

29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath [b]troubled the land: see now how mine eyes are made clear, because I have tasted a little of this honey:

30 How much more, if the people had eaten today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a greater slaughter among the Philistines?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 14:28 Or, weary.
  2. 1 Samuel 14:29 By making this cruel law.

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