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For my knowledge, bees are not mentioned in the bible – possibly honey? I am not sure…
Does anybody know?

There are three passages with bees: Deuteronomy 1:44 and Psalms 118:12 are comparisons of God’s wrath to bees chasing someone (who would rob them). As a beekeeper I have experienced this E.ven with full protective clothing it can be very intimidating to have thousands of angry females intent on doing a kamikaze number on you, each one with no regard for her own life and a painful weapon at her disposal.

The other passage is Judges 14:8 where Samson found the swarm in a lion carcase. This was NOT decaying flesh but sun bleached skeletal remains. Bees are hygenic by nature and only build comb in a sterile environment. The bees hung the comb from the rib cage – a very fitting structure for them. Really, it’s possible Samson didn’t touch the rib cage when he robbed the comb, though it certainly was pushing the edge of his Nazarite vows if not breaking them entirely.

Your right Ros. I had completely forgotten that Samson had found the bees in the Lion’s rib cage.
Thanks

Thank you both for the comments!
(the visible & invisible

With your hints I found still another passage:
Sirach 11:3 “Least is the bee among winged things, but she reaps the choicest of all harvests.”

A collection of bible-sources about this subject I found here:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=495&letter=B