Bible Verses About Honey
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for honey, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,465 votes, led by Isaiah 7:15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Honey
Isaiah 7:15150 votes
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Proverbs 24:13135 votes
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
Proverbs 16:24128 votes
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 25:27112 votes
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Matthew 3:4104 votes
And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Psalms 81:1692 votes
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
Exodus 3:886 votes
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Psalms 119:10379 votes
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Ezekiel 27:1765 votes
Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
Song of Songs 4:1164 votes
Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Proverbs 25:1663 votes
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Psalms 19:1062 votes
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Psalms 19:7-1160 votes
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
Exodus 16:3155 votes
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Ezekiel 20:654 votes
In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
1 Samuel 14:2553 votes
And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
2 Samuel 17:2953 votes
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
Leviticus 20:2447 votes
But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people.
Ezekiel 3:1-345 votes
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
Leviticus 2:1144 votes
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made by fire.
2 Chronicles 31:541 votes
And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
Proverbs 5:339 votes
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
2 Kings 18:3236 votes
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.
Proverbs 27:734 votes
The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Deuteronomy 32:1333 votes
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
What does the Bible say about honey?
Readers most often cite Isaiah 7:15 on the subject of honey. Across 2,465 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 24:13, Proverbs 16:24, Proverbs 25:27. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.