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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Sa 17:28 — Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans, and lentiles, and parched [pulse],
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beds
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These no doubt consisted of skins of beasts, mats, carpets, and such like. 2Sa 16:1,2; 1Sa 25:18; Isa 32:8 |
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basons
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or, cups. Sappoth, probably wooden bowls, such as the Arabs still eat out of, and knead their bread in. |
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earthen vessels
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"Keley yotzair , literally, ""vessels of the potter."" So when Dr. Perry visited the temple of Luxor in Egypt, he says, ""We were entertained by the Caliph here with great civility and favour; he sent us, in return of our presents, several sheep, a good quantity of eggs, bardacks, "" etc. The bardacks, he informs us, were earthen vessels, used ""to cool and refresh their water in, by means of which it drinks very cool and pleasant in the hottest seasons of the year."" See Harmer, ch. vi. Oba 1:3" |
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wheat
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"Mr. Jones says, ""Travellers use zumeet, tumeet, and limereece. Zumeet is flour mixed with honey, butter, and spice; tumeet is flour done up with organ oil: and limereece is flour mixed with water, for drink. This quenches thirst much better than water alone, satisfies a hungry appetite; cools and refreshes tired and weary spirits,"" etc." |
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2Sa 16:1 |
And when David was a little past the top [of the hill], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred [loaves] of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. |
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2Sa 16:2 |
And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses [be] for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink. |
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1Sa 25:18 |
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched [corn], and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid [them] on asses. |
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Isa 32:8 |
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. |
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Oba 1:3 |
The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation [is] high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "2 Samuel 17:28," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/2Sa/17/28.html>.
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