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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
Bees numerous and
honey
plentiful in
Palestine
Much used (
Lev. 20:24
24
But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people. (Leviticus 20:24)
;
Deut. 32:13
13
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; (Deuteronomy 32:13)
;
Matt. 3:4
4
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:4)
).
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Honey
This was so plentiful in
Palestine
, that the country was often described as a land “flowing with
milk
and honey” (
Ex. 3:8,17
8
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (Exodus 3:8)
17
And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. (Exodus 3:17)
). It is symbolical of what is sweet in
nature
; to be partaken of with discretion, lest it cause vomiting (
Prov. 25:16,27
16
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. (Proverbs 25:16)
27
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. (Proverbs 25:27)
). It was strictly forbidden to add honey to
the offerings
of the
Lord
made by
fire
(
Lev. 2:11
11
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made by fire. (Leviticus 2:11)
). What is of nature, though it be sweetness, can have no place in what is offered to
God
.
The Lord
Jesus
when in service on
earth
said to His
mother
, “
Woman
, what have I to do with thee?” though when His service was over He commended her to
John
.
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Honeycomb
From
Manners and Customs of the Bible
:
Isaiah 7:15
15
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. (Isaiah 7:15)
.
Butter
and
honey
shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
See also verse 22. Honey is frequently mixed with various forms of
milk
preparations and used upon
bread
. The Arabs in traveling often take leathern bottles full of honey for this purpose. It is considered very palatable, especially by the
children
. The context shows that the reference in the text is made particularly to the days of childhood. The fourteenth verse refers to the birth of a
son
, and the sixteenth to his early infancy. It is of this child that it is said, “Butter and honey shall he eat.”
There may be in the mixture of these two substances a propriety founded on physiological facts.
Wood
, in speaking of the Musquaw, or American
Black
Bear
, after giving an account of its method of obtaining the wild honey which is found in hollow trees, adds: “The hunters, who are equally fond of honey, find that if it is eaten in too great plenty it produces very unpleasant symptoms, which may be counteracted by mixing it with the
oil
which they extract from the
fat
of the bear” (Illustrated
Natural
History, vol.1, p. 397). We find in
Proverbs 25:16,27
16
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. (Proverbs 25:16)
27
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. (Proverbs 25:27)
, allusion to the disagreeable consequences of
eating
too much honey, and it is possible that experience had proved the oily
nature
of the butter a corrective of the honey.
Butter is mentioned in connection with honey in
2 Samuel 17:29
29
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness. (2 Samuel 17:29)
;
Job 20:17
17
He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. (Job 20:17)
;
Song of
Solomon
4:11
11
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon. (Song of Solomon 4:11)
. Honey and oil are named together in
Deuteronomy 32:13
13
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; (Deuteronomy 32:13)
.
Related Books and Articles:
492. Butter and Honey
From:
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By:
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Narrator:
Chris Genthree
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“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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