Lentiles

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningGenesis 25:342 Samuel 17:282 Samuel 23:11Ezekiel 4:9

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 25:34

   Then Jacob gave some bread and lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 25:342 voices

   “Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles,....

   “Thus Esau despised his birth-right - He used no means to get the bargain revoked, made no appeal to his father about it but the bargain which his necessity had made, (supposing it were so) his profaneness confirmed, and by his subsequent neglect and contempt, he put the bargain past recall.

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2. 2 Samuel 17:28

   They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 17:282 voices

   “Being considered a luxurious refreshment (So 4:11), the supply of it shows the high respect that was paid to David by his loyal and faithful subjects at Mahanaim.

   “Brought beds,....

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3. 2 Samuel 23:11

   And after him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines had banded together near a field full of lentils, Israel’s troops fled from them.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 23:112 voices

   “A piece of ground full of lentiles - In 1Ch 11:13 it is a parcel of ground full of barley. There is probably a mistake of עדשים adashim, lentiles, for שעורים seorim, barley, or vice versa. Some think there were both lentiles and barley in the field, and that a marauding party of the Philistines came to destroy or carry them off, and these worthies defeated the whole, and saved the produce of the field. This is not unlikely.

   “And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite,.... One who was of the mountainous country, as the Targum, the hill country of Judea, of Hebron, or the parts adjacent; this was the third of the first three; there was one of this name among the thirty, 2Sa 23:33, and the Philistines were gathered together into a troop; but so they were no doubt at first; R.

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4. Ezekiel 4:9

   But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

   ›Commentary on Ezekiel 4:92 voices

   “Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches,....

   “But Judah also is secondarily referred to in the three hundred ninety days, as having fallen, like Israel, into Gentile defilements; if, then, the Jews are to escape from the exile among Gentiles, which is their just punishment, they must submit again to the wilderness probation (Eze 4:16).

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