6 HONEY, AS FOOD AND MEDICINE. 
We may well conclude that Canaan’s honey was then as 
famous asin subsequent ages was the honey from Mount 
Hymettus in Greece.—Lev. 21: 24; Num. 13: 27; Ex. 3: 8, 17. 
n later years, Abraham’s offspring journeyed through the 
deserts of Arabia, and in order to sustain them there, God 
gave them manna from Heaven, to eat; they said that ‘‘the 
taste of it was like wafers made with honey.”—Ex. 16: 31. 
When the Amorites came out of the mountaiys of Sier 
against the children of Israel, ‘‘ they chased them like angry 
bees.”—Deut. 1: 44. . 
In the Mosaic law we find many statutes regulating the 
ownership of Bees. : Badan 
When Jonathan was engaged in battle with the Philistines 
‘und became tired and faint, he partook of honey, and was 
sreatly refreshed.—1 Sam. 14: 27. 
David and his army was provisioned in Gilead, and horney 
was one of the luxuries enumerated.—2 Sam. 16:29. The 
Jews placed honey before their guests as a sign of welcome, 
‘siving them the greatest luxuries that the land produced. 
Jeroboam sent his queen with presents to the Prophet 
Ahijah, and included honey.—1 Kings 14: 3. 
In the tythes of the Jewish Priesthood, honey is enumer- 
ated.—2 Chron. 31: 5. : 
Job signified the plenteousness of honey in the land, by 
speaking of ‘t brooks of honey.’—Job 20: 17. 
Solomon, relished Canaan’s delicious honey, and volun- 
teered this advice: ‘‘My son eat thou honey; because it is 
good.”—Prov. 24: 13. 
Isaiah mentions ‘“‘ the bee that is in the land of Assyria,” 
and declares that bees were so plenty that ‘‘ butter and honey 
shall orely one eat that is left in the land.’’—Isa. 7: 18, 22. 
The earliest mention of honey as an article of commerce 
is, that the Jews were engaged in trading it at Tyre, that old 
and honored mart of trade in Pheenicia.—Ezek. 27: 17. 
Sirach, who lived about the time of the re-building of the 
Temple at Jerusalem, speaking of the necessaries of life, 
mentions honey, with flour and milk. 
Solon, in the year 600, B. C., enacted a law, requiring that 
bee hives in cultivated fields, must be 300 feet apart. 
Homer, Herodotus, Aristotle, Cato, Varro, viet Pliny, 
Columella, and other ancient sages, composed poems, 
extolling the activity, skill and economy of bees. ; 
The celebrated Cilician apiarist Aristomachus, of Solus, 
with 58 years of experience in bee-keeping, wrote on the 
subject of bees and honey, some 500 years, 3. C.—but that 
work is lost to us. 5 
The Persians, Grecians and Romans, used honey uite 
extensively as an article of diet ; they also used it largely in 
a food, and by it, mostof their beverages were 
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