THEOSISProverbs 24:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Eat honey, my son, because it is good, and the honeycomb most sweet to thy throat.
אֱכָל־בְּנִ֣י דְבַ֣שׁ כִּי־ט֑וֹב וְנֹ֥פֶת מָ֝ת֗וֹק עַל־חִכֶּֽךָ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Isa 7:15He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.
- Song 5:1Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.
- Prov 25:16Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.
- Song 4:11Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.
- Ps 19 (18):10
- Ps 119 (118):103
- Matt 3:4And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
- Prov 25:27As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty shall be overwhelmed by glory.