1 Samuel 14:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The honey dropped. It hath been observed by many travellers and writers, that bees do ofttimes settle themselves, and make their hives and honey, in the trunks of trees, or clefts of rocks, or holes of the earth; and this in divers countries, but eminently in this of Canaan; as may be gathered from Deuteronomy 32:13 Psalms 81:16; whence it was called a land flowing with milk and honey.

1 Samuel 14:26

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.