1 Kings 19:6

“And he looked, and, behold, [there was] a cake baked on the coals, etc.] Just took off the coals, quite hot. Bochart f412 thinks it should be rendered, “baked on hot stones”; and such was the way of baking cakes in some of the eastern countries, (see Gill on “<011806>Genesis 18:6”), the stones hereabout might be heated by a supernatural power, and the cake baked on them by an angel; these sort of cakes are in Hebrew called “huggoth”, as some pronounce the word, and are said to be now common in Bulgaria, where they are called “hugaces” f413: and a cruse of water at his head; to drink of in eating the cake; which cruse or pot a learned man f414 thinks was Elijah’s, not brought by the angel,…”

“A cake baken on the coals - It is not implied that Elijah found a fire lighted and the cake on it, but only that he found one of the usual baked cakes of the desert, which form the ordinary food of the Arab at the present day. At his head - The Hebrew word means simply “the place on which the head lies;” hence, the marginal rendering, “bolster.” return to 'Top of Page'”

“cake: Kg1 17:6, Kg1 17:9-15; Psa 37:3; Isa 33:16; Mat 4:11, Mat 6:32; Mar 8:2, Mar 8:3; Joh 21:5, Joh 21:9 head: Heb. bolster 3 Kings (1 Kings) 19:7”