1 Samuel 14:24-34 - Saul's Oath Leads To Trouble
24 And the men of Israel were distressed on that day. For Saul had commanded the people, saying, Cursed is the man that eats food until evening, so that I may be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
25 And all the men of the land came into a forest, and there was honey on the ground. 26 And when the people had come into the woods, behold, a flow of honey! But no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan did not hear when his father made the people swear. And he put forth the end of the rod in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth. And his eyes were lightened. 28 And one from the people answered and said, Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed is the man who eats food this day. And the people were weary.
29 Then Jonathan said, My father has troubled the land. Please see how my eyes have been lightened because I tasted a little of this honey. 30 How much more if the people had happened to eat freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? For would not there have been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
31 And they struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people were very faint. 32 And the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and killed them on the ground. And the people ate with the blood. 33 And they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Jehovah in that they eat with the blood. And he said, You have transgressed. Roll a great stone to me today. 34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, Let each one bring his ox here, and each man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat. And do not sin against Jehovah in eating with the blood. And each man of all the people brought his ox in his hand that night, and killed them there.