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2 Samuel 17:28

2 Samuel 17:28
Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,

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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Brought beds - These no doubt consisted in skins of beasts, mats, carpets, and such like things.

Basons - ספות sappoth. Probably wooden bowls, such as the Arabs still use to eat out of, and to knead…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Samuel 17:22-29

Here is, I. The transporting of David and his forces over Jordan, pursuant to the advice he had received from his friends at Jerusalem, Sa2 17:22. He, and all that were with him, went over in the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

beds, and basons The Sept. reads "ten beds with coverlets and ten bowls."

parchedcorn … parchedpulse] If the text is sound, this is the right explanation: but it is strange that the same word should…

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