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.
Ver. 43. And, lo, I must die.] This he speaketh, saith Josephus, out of his constancy and contempt of death. Others in this speech note his candour, ingenuousness, and honest simplicity; neither accusing his father, nor excusing himself, nor appealing to the army, whose darling he was.