Jonathan tastes the honey

27But Jonathan had not heard when his father put the people under oath, so he stretched out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb, and he brought his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.

28Then one of the people answered and said, “Your father strictly put the people under oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ So the people were faint.”

29Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See, please, how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.”

30How much more if the people had eaten today from the spoil of their enemies that they found! For then the slaughter among the Philistines would have been much greater.