1 Samuel 14:32
and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
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31They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
Cross References
Genesis 9:4But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
Leviticus 7:26You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 19:26"'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure that you do not eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Ezekiel 33:25Therefore tell them, 'Thus says the Lord God: "You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?
Acts 15:29that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. 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 →