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.
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31And they stroke the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
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Genesis 9:4But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall all of you not eat.
Leviticus 7:26Moreover all of you shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 19:26All of you shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall all of you use enchantment, nor observe times.
Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you may not eat the life with the flesh.
Ezekiel 33:25Wherefore say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; All of you eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall all of you possess the land?
Acts 15:29That all of you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if all of you keep yourselves, all of you shall do well. Fare all of you 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 →