SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:29
miel, manteca, ovejas, y quesos de vacas, para que comiesen; porque dijeron entre si : Aquel pueblo está hambriento, y cansado, y tendrá sed en el desierto.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 29. And honey and butter , etc.] Honey was much in use with the ancients; Homer 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 Isaiah 7:15-22); and sheep ; with which and goats the land of Gilead abounded; (see 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-29 - Ahithophel hanged himself for vexation that his counsel was no followed. That will break a proud man's heart which will not break humble man's sleep. He thought himself in danger, concluding, that because his counsel was not followed, Absalom's cause would fail; an to prevent a possible public execution, he does justice upon himself Thus the breath is stopped, and the head laid low, from which nothin could be expected but mischief. Absalom chased his father. But observ how God sometimes makes up to his people that comfort from strangers which they are disappointed of in their own families. Our King need not our help; but he assures us, that what we do for the least of his brethren, who are sick, poor, and destitute, shall be accepted an recompensed as if done to himsel __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ודבשׁ 1706 וחמאה 2529 וצאן 6629 ושׁפות 8194 בקר 1241 הגישׁו 5066 לדוד 1732 ולעם 5971 אשׁר 834 אתו 854 לאכול 398 כי 3588 אמרו 559 העם 5971 רעב 7457 ועיף 5889 וצמא 6771 במדבר׃ 4057
