3 Regum 14:25

Clementine Latin Vulgate

omneque terræ vulgus venit in saltum, in quo erat mel super faciem agri.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
omneque terræ vulgus venit in saltum, in quo erat mel super faciem agri.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Omneque terrae vulgus venit in saltum, in quo erat mel super faciem agri.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all they: Deuteronomy 9:28, Matthew 3:5

honey: This was wild honey, which to this day abounds in Judea; and bursting from the comb, runs down the hollow trees, rocks, etc. Exodus 3:8, Numbers 13:27, Matthew 3:4

Reciprocal: Judges 14:9 - General Psalms 81:16 - honey Proverbs 25:16 - Hast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all they of the land came to a wood,.... Which lay between Bethaven and Aijalon; by whom are meant not all the inhabitants of the land of Israel, but all that came with Saul and Jonathan, and that joined them in the pursuit:

and there was honey upon the ground; which dropped upon it, as in the following verse, or where it was produced by bees; for Aristotle r reports, that bees in some places make their combs upon the ground; this was wild honey, which Diodorus Siculus s speaks of as common in Arabia, and which perhaps John the Baptist ate of, Matthew 3:4. Jarchi says, this was the honey of canes, or sugar canes, which grew in the land of Israel; and affirms from Nathan an Ishmaelite, that in the Ishmaelitish or Arabic language they call honey, sugar; but neither of these can be proved.

r Hist. Animal. l. 5. c. 22. s Bibliothec. l. 19. p. 731.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All they of the land - literally, all the land, probably meaning all those named in 1 Samuel 14:21-22, who now flocked to the wood as a rendezvous.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 14:25. There was honey upon the ground — There were many wild bees in that country, and Judea is expressly said to be a land flowing with milk and honey.