After a time, Heb. after days, i.e. either after some days; or rather, after a year, as that word oft signifies; as Exodus 13:10 Leviticus 25:29 Numbers 9:22 Judges 17:10 1 Samuel 1:3, 1 Samuel 27:7; when the flesh of the lion, which by its strong smell is offensive to and avoided by bees, was wholly consumed, and nothing was left but the bones. There was a swarm of bees; not generated of the dead lion's body, but elsewhere, and settling themselves there, as they have sometimes done in a man's skull, and in a sepulchre, and such-like places.
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Judges 14:8
8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.