1 Samuel 14:25
And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
And all they of the land came to a wood,.... Which lay between Bethaven and Aijalon; by whom are meant not all the inhabitants of the land of Israel, but all that came with Saul and Jonathan, and that joined them in the pursuit:
and there was honey upon the ground; which dropped upon it, as in the following verse, or where it was produced by bees; for Aristotle {r} reports, that bees in some places make their combs upon the ground; this was wild honey, which Diodorus Siculus {s} speaks of as common in Arabia, and which perhaps John the Baptist ate of, Matthew 3:4. Jarchi says, this was the honey of canes, or sugar canes, which grew in the land of Israel; and affirms from Nathan an Ishmaelite, that in the Ishmaelitish or Arabic language they call honey, sugar; but neither of these can be proved.
{r} Hist. Animal. l. 5. c. 22.
{s} Bibliothec. l. 19. p. 731.