1 Samuel 14:43 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

I am sentenced to death for it; which is hard measure. He had another answer, that he knew not of his father's command; but that being said before, 1 Samuel 14:27, it was needless here to repeat it.

1 Samuel 14:43

43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.