Bible Cross References
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
1 Samuel 14:25-30
25
Now all the people of the land came to a forest; and there was honey on the ground.
26
And when the people had come into the forest, there was the flowing honey; but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.
27
But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; therefore he stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.
28
Then one of the people said, Your father adjured the people with an oath, saying, Cursed is the man who eats food this day. And the people were faint.
29
And Jonathan said, My father has troubled the land. See now, how my eyes have brightened because I have tasted a little of this honey.
30
How much better if the people had eaten to feed themselves today of the spoils of their enemies which they have found! For now would there not have been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
Proverbs 25:15
In being slow to anger a ruler is persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.