Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 14:8
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Judges14:8
8 ¶ And after a time he returned to take her: and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of Bees , and honey in the carcase of the lion.
Heb. after days, i. e. Either after some days: or rather, after a year, as that word oft signifies; as Exod. 13. 10. Levit. 25. 29. Numb. 9. 22. Iudg. 17. 10. 1 Sam. 1. 3. and 27. 7. When the flesh of the Lion, which by its strong smell is offensive to, and avoided by Bees, was wholly consumed, and nothing was left but the bones.
Not generated of the dead Lions body, but elsewhere, and settling themselves there, as they have sometimes done in a man's Skull, and in a Sepulchre, and such like places.
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