Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 18. Raisins. Hebrew tsimmukim, “dried raisins,” or clusters of an extraordinary size. Roger speaks of some gathered in the vale of Sorec, which weighed 25½ pounds. A.D. 1634. Septuagint “a gomer of dry raisins.” Syr. and Arab. “a hundred cheeses.”—Cakes. Chal. “pounds.” Hebrew is imperfect, two hundred … of figs. We must supply ( Calmet.) cakes, with the Prot. and so forth or pounds, with the Chaldee, ( Bible.) as each of the cakes perhaps weighed so much. Menochius.
1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks