And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.
Ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey. This was a present in unison with the peasant character she assumed. Cracknels х niqudiym (H5350)] are a kind of sweet seed-cake or biscuit, which crumbled easily (cf. Joshua 9:5; Joshua 9:12). [Septuagint, kulluria, a cruse of honey: baqbuq (H1228), a bottle; from a root signifying to pour out, and expressive of the gurgling sound made in emptying; Septuagint, stamnon, a pitcher or jar. The Septuagint also, along with the Syriac version, adds, stafidas, dried grapes.] Harmer is of opinion, founded on an account by D'Arvieux of a present made to him by the mother and sister of an Arab emir consisting of viands very similar to the present described in this passage, that it was not so mean a donation as we are apt to suppose. The prophet was blind; but having received divine premonition of the pretended country woman's coming, he addressed her the moment she appeared, as the queen, apprised her of the calamities which, in consequence of the ingratitude of Jeroboam, his apostasy, and outrageous misgovernment of Israel, impended over their house, as well as over the nation which too readily followed his idolatrous innovations.