the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Proverbs 24:13
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Eat honey, my son, for it is good,and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;
My son, eat honey, for it is good; The droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
My son, eat honey, for it is good; Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;
My child, eat honey because it is good. Honey from the honeycomb tastes sweet.
My son, eat honey, because it is good, And the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
My son, eat honey, for it is good; The droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
My sonne, eate hony, for it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth.
Eat honey, my son, for it is good,Indeed, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
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Honey is good for you, my children, and it tastes sweet.My son, eat honey, for it is good; honeycomb drippings are sweet to your taste.
Eat honey, my son, for it is good; and a honeycomb is sweet to thy taste:
My son, eat honey; it is good. Honey straight from the honeycomb is the sweetest.
My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste.
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My child, eat honey; it is good. And just as honey from the comb is sweet on your tongue,My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the dripping of the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;
My sonne, thou eatest hony & ye swete hony cobe, because it is good & swete in thy mouth.
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to thy taste:
My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:
My sonne, eate thou honie, because it is good, and the honie combe, which is sweete to thy taste.
My sonne, eate thou hony because it is good, and the hony combe, for it is sweete vnto thy mouth:
My son, eat honey, for the honeycomb is good, that thy throat may be sweetened.
My son, eat thou honey, for it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
Mi sone, ete thou hony, for it is good; and an honycomb ful swete to thi throte.
My son, eat honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
My son, eat thou honey, because [it is] good; and the honey-comb, [which is] sweet to thy taste:
Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
My son, eat honey because it is good, And the honeycomb which is sweet to your taste;
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste.
My son, eat honey, for it is good. Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good, - and droppings from the comb because they are sweet to thy palate:
Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.
My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
Eat my son, honey that [is] good, And the honeycomb -- sweet to thy palate.
26 Eat honey, dear child—it's good for you— and delicacies that melt in your mouth. Likewise knowledge, and wisdom for your soul— Get that and your future's secured, your hope is on solid rock.
My son, eat honey, for it is good, Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;
Contextual Overview
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
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed; having all goodly things of his master's in his hand; and he arose, and went to Aram-naharaim, unto the city of Nahor.
And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say: Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink;
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
Louder than the voice of archers, by the watering-troughs! there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts of His rulers in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates.
As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them: 'Is the seer here?'
Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in Him, and He will bring it to pass.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct thy paths.
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 âsincere milk of the wordâ 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.
