Pleasant words are like ¹  a honeycomb, ²  sweet to the soul and healing ³  to the bones.

son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai,

When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come on, let’s head back before my father quits worrying about the donkeys and becomes anxious about us!”

There was a man from Ramathaim Zophim, ¹  from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.