1 Samuel 14:32
So the people turned to the spoile, and tooke sheepe, and oxen, and calues, and slewe them on the ground, and the people did eate them with the blood.
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Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life thereof, I meane, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eate.
Leviticus 7:26Neither shall ye eate any blood, either of foule, or of beast in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 19:26Ye shall not eat the flesh with the blood, ye shall not vse witchcraft, nor obserue times.
Deuteronomy 12:23Onely bee sure that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou maiest not eate the life with the flesh.
Ezekiel 33:25Wherefore say vnto them, Thus saieth the Lord God, Ye eate with the blood, and lift vp your eyes towarde your idoles, and sheade blood: should ye then possesse the land?
Acts 15:29That is, that ye abstaine from things offered to idoles, and blood, and that that is strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keepe your selues, ye shall doe well. Fare ye well.
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 →