2 Samuel 17:28
They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,
Note Most LXX manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew includes roasted seeds.
Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
Note basons: or, cups
brought beds, basins, earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans, lentils, roasted grain,
brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched grain, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- beds
- These no doubt consisted of skins of beasts, mats, carpets, and such like.
- 2 Samuel 16:1, 2; 1 Samuel 25:18; Isaiah 32:8
- 2 Samuel 17:28
- 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.
- Obadiah 1:3