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Summary
- There is no sugar in the Bible. Sugar cane had not reached the ancient Near East; “sweet cane” in Jeremiah 6:20 and Isaiah 43:24 is an aromatic reed used in incense, not a sweetener.
- Honey is the Bible’s sweetness — the land flows with milk and honey, and Psalm 119:103 measures God’s words against it.
- Ezekiel eats a scroll that tastes sweet as honey (3:3), though its contents were lamentation. Samson finds honey in a lion’s carcass (Judges 14:8), Jonathan in a wood on a disastrous day (1 Samuel 14:27).
- Proverbs 25:16 is the only place Scripture warns about a good thing purely on grounds of quantity: “eat just enough — too much of it, and you will vomit.”
- Scripture supplies no dream key (Genesis 40:8). The associations are genuine goodness, sweetness found in hard places, and excess.
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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Psalm 119:103; Ezekiel 3:3; Judges 14:8-14; 1 Samuel 14:27; Proverbs 25:16, 27; Genesis 40:8; Jeremiah 6:20; Isaiah 43:24). The identification of “sweet cane” as an aromatic reed rather than sugar cane, and the later spread of sugar cane from India to the Mediterranean, follow standard reference works.
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