Bible Verses With Honey

Honey is sweet and natural, and the Bible uses it to help us understand different ideas and lessons. Whether it’s about the sweetness of wisdom or the blessings of God, honey is used to make important points in scripture. In this blog post, we’ll look at Bible verses that mention honey and see what these sweet words can teach us about life and faith.

Bible Verses With Honey

Psalm 19:10 – “More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.”

Proverbs 24:13 – “My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.”

Proverbs 16:24 – “Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.”

Exodus 3:8 – “So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”

Exodus 3:17 – “I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Leviticus 20:24 – “But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples.'”

Deuteronomy 6:3 – “Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Deuteronomy 11:9 – “And that you may live long in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Deuteronomy 31:20 – “For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.”

Judges 14:8 – “After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion. And behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.”

Judges 14:9 – “He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.”

1 Samuel 14:25 – “Now when all the people came to the forest, behold, there was honey on the ground.”

1 Samuel 14:27 – “But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath. So he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.”

1 Samuel 14:29 – “Then Jonathan said, ‘My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.'”

2 Chronicles 31:5 – “As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and all the produce of the field, and they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.”

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