1 Samuel 8:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

1 Samuel 8:13 —

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Art Baker Benjamin Bread Citizens Confectioner Cooking Corn

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-22)

We have here the starting of a matter perfectly new and surprising, which was the setting up of kingly government in Israel. Perhaps the thing had been often talked of among them by those that were given to change and affected that which looked great. But we do not find that it was ever till now publicly proposed and debated. Abimelech was little better than a titular king, though he is said to re…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. he will take your daughters to be confectionaries--Cookery, baking, and the kindred works are, in Eastern countries, female employment, and thousands of young women are occupied with these offices in the palaces even of petty princes.