From Nave’s Topical Bible
Honey
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 18Passages listed
- 14Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerning So 4:11Exodus 16:312 Samuel 17:29Proverbs 25:27Isaiah 7:15Matthew 3:4Luke 24:42
- Not to be offered with sacrificesLeviticus 2:11
- Found in rocksDeuteronomy 32:13Psalms 81:16
- Found upon the ground1 Samuel 14:25
- Samson's riddle concerningJudges 14:14
- Sent as a present by Jacob to EgyptGenesis 43:11
- Plentiful in PalestineExodus 3:8Leviticus 20:24Deuteronomy 8:8Ezekiel 20:6
- Abundant in Assyria2 Kings 18:32
- An article of merchandise from PalestineEzekiel 27:17
The passages, in Bible order (18)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.
Commentary on Genesis 43:111 voice
Nevertheless Benjamin, the youngest, was kept back and still stayed close to his loving father. The bonds of the law held him back, and ancestral custom. The famine was increasing because he was coming late. Two brothers, Reuben and Judah—that is, humility and confession—make intercession on his behalf. He has them as guarantees with his father; to them Benjamin is entrusted. One of them is the firstborn, the other restored to life. The firstborn represents the law; the one restored to life, the gospel.
Ambrose of Milan· On Joseph the Patriarch, 397Patristic
- Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Commentary on Exodus 3:81 voice
… Jesus Christ was to introduce the second people (which is composed of us nations, lingering deserted in the world previously) into the land of promise, "flowing with milk and honey" (that is, into the possession of eternal life, than which nothing is sweeter). This had to come about not through Moses (that is, not through the law's discipline) but through Joshua (that is, through the new law's grace), after our circumcision with "a knife of rock" (that is, with Christ's precepts, for Christ is in many ways and figures predicted as a rock).
Tertullian· ANSWER TO THE JEWS 9.22, 220Patristic
- Exodus 16:31
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
Commentary on Exodus 16:311 voice
The Word of God becomes all these things to each and every one according as the capacity or the desire of the participant requires. In just the same way the manna also, although it was one food, yielded its flavor to each person after his desire. So he does not offer himself only as bread to those who hunger and as wine to those who thirst, but he presents himself also as fragrant apples to those who crave delights.
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS 3:8, 253Patristic
- Leviticus 2:11
No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Commentary on Leviticus 2:111 voice
They quote the passage which says that "the lips of a strange woman drop as honeycomb," which is sweet indeed in the eater's mouth but is afterward found more bitter than gall. This, they argue, is the reason that neither honey nor wax is offered in the sacrifices of the Lord, and that oil, the product of the bitter olive, is burned in his temple.
Jerome· LETTER 128.2, 420Patristic
- Leviticus 20:24
But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.
Commentary on Leviticus 20:241 voice
But I have said unto you, ye shall inherit the land,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 8:8
a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Commentary on Deuteronomy 8:81 voice
A land of wheat and barley,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:131 voice
Even as also the prophet Moses hath taught us that through this cause the people forgot their God, and that through the lust of the belly they went forth unto idolatry, and from eating meat they were led into blasphemies, and from dainty foods they …
Philoxenus of Mabbug· 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 10 -- On Gluttony, 523Patristic
- Judges 14:14
So he said to them: “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet.” For three days they were unable to explain the riddle.
Commentary on Judges 14:141 voice
And perhaps this was not only a prodigy of valour, but also a mystery of wisdom, an utterance of prophecy. For it does not seem to have been without a purpose that, as he was going to his marriage, a roaring lion met him, which he tore asunder with his hands, in whose body, when about to enjoy the wished-for wedlock, he found a swarm of bees, and took honey from its mouth, which he gave to his father and mother to eat.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Holy Spirit 2, Introduction, 6-9, 397Patristic
- 1 Samuel 14:25
Then all the troops entered the forest, and there was honey on the ground.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 14:252 voices
There follows: (Verses 25, 26) "And all the common people of the land came into a forest, in which there was honey upon the surface of the field. And so the people entered the forest, and flowing honey appeared, and no one put his hand to his mouth." A forest is a wooded and hilly place. By this name, indeed, the hearts of worldly people are fittingly designated, because while they serve external cares with all their attention, like wooded places, they are not cultivated for the fruit of good work by the plowshare of preaching.
Gregory the Dialogist· Commentary on 1 Kings, Book 5, Chapter 4, 604Patristic
Saul, as it is written in the first book of Kings [Samuel], pronounced a curse on him who ate bread before the evening, and until he had avenged himself upon his enemies. So none of his troops tasted any food while all the people of the land ate.
Jerome· Against Jovinianus 2.15, 420Patristic
- 2 Samuel 17:29
honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
Commentary on 2 Samuel 17:291 voice
And honey and butter,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Kings 18:32
until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
Commentary on 2 Kings 18:321 voice
Until I come and take you away - This was well calculated to stir up a seditious spirit. Ye cannot be delivered; your destruction, if ye resist, is inevitable; Sennacherib will do with you, as he does with all the nations he conquers, lead you captive into another land: but if you will surrender without farther trouble, he will transport you into a land as good as your own.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Psalms 81:16
But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
- Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.
- Isaiah 7:15
By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
- Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
Commentary on Ezekiel 20:61 voice
In the day that I lifted up my hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Ezekiel 27:17
Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged wheat from Minnith, cakes and honey, oil and balm for your merchandise.
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