When the ark was brought in and the offerings finished, David shared out food to everyone present. To every one, men and women alike, he gave “a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.” The word means a container of wine, and it appears again in Hosea 3:1, where the LORD tells the prophet to love a woman who is unfaithful, as he loves Israel, though they “look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.” In one verse it is a gift, in the other a distraction. Read 2 Samuel 6:19.
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And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
Heb. ashishah, (2 Sam. 6:19; 1 Chr. 16:3; Cant. 2:5; Hos. 3:1), meaning properly “a cake of pressed raisins.” “Flagons of wine” of the Authorized Version should be, as in the Revised Version, “cakes of raisins” in all these passages. In Isa. 22:24 it is the rendering of the Hebrew nebel, which properly means a bottle or vessel of skin. (Comp. 1 Sam. 1:24; 10:3; 25:18; 2 Sam. 16:1, where the same Hebrew word is used.)
William Smith, 1884
a word employed in the Authorized Version to render two distinct Hebrew terms:
(1.) Ashishah , (2 Samuel 6:19; 1 Chronicles 16:3; Solomon 2:5; Hosea 3:1) It really means a cake of pressed raisins. Such cakes were considered as delicacies; they were also offered to idols.
(2.) Nebel , (Isaiah 22:24) is commonly used for a bottle or vessel, originally probably a skin, but in later times a piece of pottery. (Isaiah 30:14)