09:014:020 And Saul and all the people that were with
him assembled
themselves,
and they came to the battle: and, behold, every
man’s
sword was against his fellow, and there was a very
great
discomfiture.
09:014:021 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the
Philistines before
that
time, which went up with them into the camp from the
country
round about, even they also turned to be with the
Israelites
that were with Saul and Jonathan.
09:014:022 Likewise all the men of Israel which had
hid themselves in
mount
Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled,
even
they
also followed hard after them in the battle.
09:014:023 So the lord saved Israel that day:
and the battle passed over
unto
Bethaven.
09:014:024 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.
09:014:025 And all they of the land came to a wood;
and there was honey
upon
the ground.
09:014:026 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.
09:014:027 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, and put his
hand
to
his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
09:014:028 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.
09:014:029 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.
09:014:030 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?
09:014:031 And they smote the Philistines that day
from Michmash to
Aijalon:
and the people were very faint.
09:014:032 And the people flew upon the spoil, and
took sheep, and oxen,
and
calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people
did
eat
them with the blood.
09:014:033 Then they told Saul, 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.


