1. Judges 14:8 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is significant about the term used for “swarm”?

Judges 14:8 (ESV)

8 After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

The word for swarm is actually better translated community—a community of bees. In a place of death and decay, Samson encounters a community of bees producing unexpected sweetness.1