^{28 Ref} Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food.

^{29 Ref} Then Jonathan said, My father has made trouble come on the land: now see how bright my eyes have become because I have taken a little of this honey.

^{30 Ref} How much more if the people had freely taken their food from the goods of those who were fighting against them! would there not have been much greater destruction among the Philistines?

^{31 Ref} That day they overcame the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were feeble from need of food.