The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that
eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
SA1 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.
SA1 14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of
the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now
a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
SA1 14:31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to
Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
SA1 14:32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen,
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