28. Then a soldier told him, “Your father swore that anyone who ate food today would be put under a curse, and we agreed not to eat. That's why we're so weak.”
29. Jonathan said, “My father has caused you a lot of trouble. Look at me! I had only a little of this honey, but already I feel strong and alert.
30. I wish you had eaten some of the food the Philistines left behind. We would have been able to kill a lot more of them.”
31. By evening the Israelite army was exhausted from killing Philistines all the way from Michmash to Aijalon.