Gen 14:18, Deu 23:4, 1Sa 25:18, 2Sa 17:28-29, 3Jo 6-8 | TSK | STEP

cakes of figs.Figs cured and then pressed together. Now all this provision was a matter of little worth; and had it been granted in the first instance, it would have perfectly satisfied David, and secured his good offices.

2 Samuel 17:28-29

beds.These no doubt consisted of skins of beasts, mats, carpets, and such like.

16:1,2; 1Sa 25:18; Isa 32:8

basons. or, cups.{Sappoth,} probably wooden bowls, such as the Arabs still eat out of, and knead their bread in.

earthen vessels.{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.

Ob 1:3

wheat.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.

cheese of kine.

1Sa 17:18

for David.

Lu 8:3; Php 4:15-19

to eat.

2; Ps 34:8-10; 84:11

The people.

Jud 8:4-6; Ec 11:1,2; Isa 21:14; 58:7

in the wilderness.

16:2,14

3 John 6-8

have borne witness of thy charity.

12; Phm 1:5-7

whom.

Ac 15:3; 21:5; Ro 15:24; 2Co 1:16; Tit 3:13

after a godly sort. or, worthy of God.This is a literal and proper rendering of the original [axios tou theos ;] by which the antecedent to the possessive pronoun his, in the next verse, becomes immediately apparent. "In a manner worthy of God, and of your relations and obligations to Him, and such as He can approve."

1Th 2:12

do well.

Ge 4:7; Jon 4:4; Mt 25:21-23; Ac 15:29; Php 4:14; 1Pe 2:20

that.

Ac 8:4; 9:16; 2Co 4:5; Col 1:24; Re 2:3

taking.

2Ki 5:15,16,20-27; 1Co 9:12-15,18; 2Co 11:7-9; 12:13

to receive.

10; Mt 10:14,40; Lu 11:7; 2Co 7:2,3

fellow-helpers.

1Co 3:5-9; 16:10,11; 2Co 6:1; 8:23; Php 4:3; Col 4:11; 1Th 3:2

Phm 1:2,24