1 Samuel 14:43
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.
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Gill's Exposition
Then Saul said to Jonathan, tell me what thou hast done,.... What sin he had committed, the lot having fallen on him, and found him out:
and Jonathan told him; the whole of the matter, all the…
Here is, I. Saul's boasting against the Philistines. He proposed, as soon as his soldiers had got their suppers, to pursue them all night, and not leave a man of them, Sa1 14:36. Here he showed much…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Tell me In like manner Joshua moved Achan to confess, when the lot had fixed upon him as the "troubler of Israel" (Jos 7:19).
I did but taste, &c. I did certainly taste … here I am: I will die.…