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John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 17:29
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And honey and butter, etc.] Honey was much in use with the ancients; Homer f300 speaks of it as a part of the provisions at a feast, and as food with which persons were nourished and brought up; and the ancient Scythians lived on milk and honey f301; and this and butter were pretty much the food of the people in Judea; (see <230715>Isaiah 7:15-22); and sheep; with which and goats the land of Gilead abounded; (see <220401> Song of Solomon 4:1,2); and cheese of kine: made of the milk of cows, as it commonly is: for David, and for the people that [were] with him, to eat; and no doubt they brought wine with them for them to drink; the men that brought these, some brought one sort, and some another, or however different parcels of the same, and did not join in one present; for they came from different parts: for they said, the people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness; where they had been some time, and out of which they had just come, and so weary with travelling, and therefore brought beds to lie down and rest upon; and being hungry and thirsty, through want of bread and water in the wilderness, they brought them both eatables and drinkables; for though the latter is not expressed, it is to be understood, as the word “thirsty” supposes.
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