1 Samuel 14:32
and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
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 thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Leviticus 7:26And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 19:26Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.
Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh.
Ezekiel 33:25Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Acts 15:29that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. 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 →