Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
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Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
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Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
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Then said Jonathan: 'My father hath troubled the land; see, I pray you, how mine eyes are brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
Cross-references (2)
Passages linked to 1 Samuel 14:29 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 18:18 He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.
- Joshua 7:25 Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain By making this cruel law.
By making this cruel law.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled…
1Sa 14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
Ver. 29. My father hath troubled the land.] Iuveniliter hoc dixit Ionathas, saith one. {a} If Saul had done unadvisedly, yet Jonathan should not have reprehended his father’s act so publicly, for fear of a rebellion.
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See, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened.] So Hunniades was much refreshed, when, after a fight with the Turks, he supped with a shepherd, who brought him faint and almost famished to his poor cottage, and set before him bread and water, with a few onions. {b}
{a} A. Lapide.
{b} Turk. Hist., p. 310.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The land, i.e. the people of the land, the…
The land, i.e. the people of the land, the whole army, whom by this rash oath he hath greatly injured. The zeal of defending himself makes him run into the other extreme of accusing his father, and that before the people, whom by this means he might have stirred up to a sedition.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then said Jonathan, my father hath troubled the land,....…
Then said Jonathan, my father hath troubled the land,.... The people of the land, as the Targum, the soldiers in his army; afflicted and distressed them, and made them uneasy in their minds, like troubled waters; the Arabic version is,"my father hath sinned against the people;''hath done them injury by forbidding them to eat. This was not wisely said by Jonathan; how much soever his father was to be blamed, it did not become him as a son thus to reflect upon him, and it might have tended to mutiny and sedition:
see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey; the benefit he received by it was very visible; it might easily be discerned that he was greatly refreshed with it, and his spirits invigorated by it; it was to be seen in the cheerfulness of his countenance, and the briskness of his eyes: and he suggests it would have had the same effect upon the people, had they eaten of it, as he had done.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Hath troubled - The same word as was applied…
Hath troubled - The same word as was applied to Achan Jos 7:25, and gave its name to the valley of Achor. This additional reference to Joshua is remarkable (compare 1Sa 14:24).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Land. Chaldean, "the people of the land." (Menochius) ---…
Land. Chaldean, "the people of the land." (Menochius) --- He speaks his sentiments freely. But we ought not to find fault, in public, with the conduct of the prince. (Calmet) --- The people might have eaten a little without stopping the pursuit, as they generally carried provisions with them, or might find some easily on the road, so as to run with fresh vigour, (See Josue x.) and make ample amends for the time that they were delayed. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 29. My father hath troubled the land — Jonathan…
29. My father hath troubled the land — Jonathan is quick to see the rashness and folly of his father’s oath, and to point out its injury to the Hebrews’ cause.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 29. hath troubled] The word applied to Achan in…
29. hath troubled] The word applied to Achan in Jos_7:25.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (29) My father hath troubled the land.—In other words,…
(29) My father hath troubled the land.—In other words, “My father’s ill-considered vow has done-grave harm to us in Israel. Had he not weakened the people, by hindering them from taking the needful refreshment, our victory would have been far more complete. Utter exhaustion has prevented us from following up our victory.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain My father hath troubled the land. Ie. hath brought…
My father hath troubled the land. Ie. hath brought disaster upon it (see Gen_34:30; Jos_7:25) This disaster was the incompleteness of the victory, owing to the people being too exhausted to continue the pursuit.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 for the land
for the land
This is a metonym that represents the nation of Israel. AT: "for Israel" (See: Metonymy)
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my eyes have become brightened
This idiom means that he was strengthened. AT: "I regained my strength" (See: Idiom)
How much better if the people ... that they found?
Jonathan uses this hypothetical question to state that the people should have been allowed to eat. This can be a statement. AT: "Our victory would have been better if the people had eaten freely today of the plunder that they took from their enemies." (See: Rhetorical Question and Hypothetical Situations)
plunder
This word refers to the things the people had taken from the battle with their enemy.
Because now the slaughter has not been great
Because the troops were not able to eat during the battle, as the day progressed, they became weaker. Because of this, they were not able to kill as many of the Philistines.
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trouble
slaughter
Philistines
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 14:29 made trouble: Joshua had used this verb in…
14:29 made trouble: Joshua had used this verb in speaking with Achan (Josh 7:25), and Jephthah had used it with his innocent daughter (Judg 11:35). Saul’s foolish oath limited Israel’s victory (1 Sam 14:30) and put his son’s life at risk (see also Josh 6:18; 1 Chr 2:7).
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