1 Samuel 14:26-28

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²⁶ When the troops entered the forest, they saw the flow of honey, but none of them ate any of it^[a] because they feared the oath. ²⁷ However, Jonathan had not heard his father make the troops swear the oath. He reached out with the end of the staff he was carrying and dipped it into the honeycomb.^(A) When he ate the honey,^[b] he had renewed energy.^{(B) 28} Then, one of the troops said, “Your father made the troops solemnly swear, ‘The man who eats food today is cursed,’ and the troops are exhausted.”