1 Samuel 14:32
and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and killed them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.
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In Context
31And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint,
Cross References
Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life of it, [which is] the blood of it, ye shall not eat.
Leviticus 7:26And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 19:26Ye shall not eat anything with the blood. Neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practice augury.
Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure that thou not eat the blood. For the blood is the life, and thou shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Ezekiel 33:25Therefore say to them, Thus says lord LORD: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. And shall ye possess the land?
Acts 15:29to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, keeping yourselves from which, ye will do well. Be strong.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 14:25-36
Saul's Rash Oath. ( b. c. 1067.) 24 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. 25 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 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. 27 But Jonathan heard not when his… Read the whole commentary →