TRIV Who said that Jonathan must die for eating some honey?

God ... struck him with an incurable and an invisible plague. For as soon as he had ended these words, a dreadful pain in his bowels came upon him, and bitter torments of the inner parts. And indeed very justly, seeing he had tormented the bowels of others. 2 Machabees 9:5

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Who said that Jonathan must die for eating some honey?


His father, Saul

And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. 1 Samuel 14:43
Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die. And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan. 1 Samuel 14:43

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