Bible Strands
1 Kings 14:3
Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the boy.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeroboam instructs his wife to disguise herself and travel to Shiloh to seek Ahijah the prophet regarding the fate of their sick son.
The words — The text commands her to take ten loaves (לֶ֧חֶם, lechem), cakes (וְ/נִקֻּדִ֛ים, ve./ni.ku.Dim), and a jar of honey (דְּבַ֖שׁ, de.Vash) in her hand (בְּ֠/יָדֵ/ךְ, Be./ya.de/kh).
The thread — Similar provisions are noted when Saul’s servant worries about lacking a gift for a prophet (1 Samuel 9:7), when a king offers refreshment and reward to a man of God (1 Kings 13:7), and when a man brings twenty loaves to the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 4:42).
Why it lands — The verse records a specific royal provision sent to a prophet before receiving divine revelation, requiring the reader to observe how material gifts function alongside prophetic inquiry in the narrative.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- 1 Samuel 9:7 “If we do go,” Saul replied, “what can we give the man? For the bread in our packs is gone, and there is no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
- 1 Kings 13:7 Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”
- 2 Kings 4:42 Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
- 2 Kings 1:2 Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
- 2 Kings 5:5 “Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing.
- 2 Kings 5:15 Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
- 2 Kings 8:7 Then Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”
- Luke 7:2 There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick and about to die.
- John 4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.
- John 11:3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”