1 Samuel 14:32
And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.
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Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.
Leviticus 7:26And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.
Leviticus 19:26Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.
Deuteronomy 12:23But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.
Ezekiel 33:25For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?
Acts 15:29To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.
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 →