1 Samuel 8:13
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries,.... Such as deal in spices, and mix them, and make them up in various forms very agreeable to the taste. Men are commonly in our countries and…
We have here the starting of a matter perfectly new and surprising, which was the setting up of kingly government in Israel. Perhaps the thing had been often talked of among them by those that were…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
to be confectionaries The original form of "confectioner" not however in its modern sense, but = "one who makes confections" (Exo 30:35), i.e. compounds of spices and perfumes, a perfumer.