Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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1 Samuel 14:37
He answered him not that day - Why was this answer delayed? Surely Jonathan' s eating the honey was no sin. This could not have excited God' s displeasure. And yet the lot found out Jonathan! But did this argue that he had incurred guilt in the sight of God? I answer: It did not; for Jonathan was delivered, by the authority of the people, from his father' s rash curse; no propitiation is offered for his supposed transgression to induce God to pardon it; nor do we find any displeasure of God manifested on the occasion. See below.
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