箴言 24:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我兒，你要吃蜜，因為這是好的；吃蜂房下滴的蜜，就覺甘甜。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 儿 ， 你 要 吃 蜜 ， 因 为 是 好 的 ； 吃 蜂 房 下 滴 的 蜜 便 觉 甘 甜 。

Contextual Overview

¹³ My child, eat honey because it is good. Honey from the honeycomb tastes sweet. ¹⁴ In the same way, wisdom is pleasing to you. If you find it, you have hope for the future, and your wishes will come true.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

eat: Proverbs 25:16, Proverbs 25:27, Song of Solomon 5:1, Isaiah 7:15, Matthew 3:4

to thy taste: Heb. upon thy palate

Reciprocal: Leviticus 2:11 - honey Nehemiah 8:12 - because Psalms 19:10 - sweeter Psalms 119:103 - sweet Proverbs 2:10 - General Proverbs 16:24 - an Proverbs 22:18 - it is Song of Solomon 4:11 - honey

Cross-References

Genesis 24:9
So the servant put his hand under his master's leg and made a promise to Abraham about this.

Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left, carrying with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Northwest Mesopotamia to Nahor's city.

Genesis 24:11
In the evening, when the women come out to get water, he made the camels kneel down at the well outside the city.

Genesis 24:43
I am standing by this spring. I will wait for a young woman to come out to get water, and I will say, "Please give me water from your jar to drink."

Exodus 2:16
There was a priest in Midian who had seven daughters. His daughters went to that well to get water to fill the water troughs for their father's flock.

Judges 5:11
Listen to the sound of the singers at the watering holes. There they tell about the victories of the Lord , the victories of the Lord 's warriors in Israel. Then the Lord 's people went down to the city gates.

1 Samuel 9:11
As Saul and the servant were going up the hill to the town, they met some young women coming out to get water. Saul and the servant asked them, "Is the seer here?"

Psalms 37:5
Depend on the Lord ; trust him, and he will take care of you.

Proverbs 3:6
Remember the Lord in all you do, and he will give you success.

John 4:7
When a Samaritan woman came to the well to get some water, Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good,.... It is good for food; there was plenty of it in Palestine, and it was eaten for food, not only by children, but grown persons; and was very nourishing, strengthening, and refreshing to them, as Samson, Jonathan, John the Baptist, and others; and is good for medicine, is healthful and salutary, and useful in many diseases: it is said m to conduce much to prolong life and preserve from diseases; it has been observed that those who have much used it have lived to a great age;

and the honeycomb, [which is] sweet to thy taste; because it is so, as all honey is, and especially that which is immediately squeezed or drops from the honeycomb; this is said not so much on account of honey, and the eating of that, as for what follows concerning the knowledge of wisdom, which is comparable to it for pleasure and profit; see

Proverbs 16:24 n.

m Athenaei Deipnosophist. l. 2. c. 7. p. 46, 47. so Pierius Valerian. apud Steeb. Coelum Sephirot Heb. c. 7. s. 5. p. 132. n Vid. Maimon. Moreh Nevochim, par. 1. c. 30. p. 37.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Honey entered largely into the diet of Hebrew children Isaiah 7:15, so that it was as natural an emblem for the purest and simplest wisdom, as the “sincere milk of the word” was to the New Testament writers. The learner hears what seems to be a rule of diet - then Proverbs 24:14 the parable is explained.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 24:13. And the honey-comb — I have often had occasion to remark how much finer the flavour of honey is in the honey-comb than it is after it has been expressed from it, and exposed to the action of the air. But it has been asserted that the honey-comb is never eaten; it must be by those who have no acquaintance with the apiary. I have seen the comb with its contained honey eaten frequently, and of it I have repeatedly partaken. And that our Lord ate it, is evident from Luke 24:42. Nor can any man who has not eaten it in this way feel the full force of the allusions to the honey-comb and its sweetness in several parts of the sacred writings. See 1 Samuel 14:27; Psalms 19:10; Proverbs 5:3; Proverbs 16:24; Proverbs 27:7; Song of Solomon 4:11; Song of Solomon 5:1; and the place before us.