1 Samuel 14:32
And the people fell on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate [them] with the blood.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
31And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Ajalon; and the people were very faint.
Cross References
Genesis 9:4Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.
Leviticus 7:26And no blood shall ye eat in any of your dwellings, whether it be of fowl or of cattle.
Leviticus 19:26Ye shall eat nothing with the blood. Ye shall not practise enchantment, nor use auguries.
Deuteronomy 12:23Only, be sure that thou eat not the blood; for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh;
Ezekiel 33:25Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward 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 what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.
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 →