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Bread

 

Bread

Given by God - Ru 1:6; Mt 6:11

Yielded by the earth - Job 28:5; Isa 55:10

MADE OF

• Wheat
- Ex 29:2; Ps 81:16
• Barley
- Jud 7:13; Joh 6:9
• Beans, millet, &c
- Eze 4:9
• Manna (in the wilderness)
- Nu 11:8

Corn ground for making - Isa 28:28

Was kneaded - Ge 18:6; Jer 7:18; Ho 7:4

Troughs used for kneading - Ex 12:34

Usually leavened - Le 23:17; Mt 13:33

Sometimes unleavened - Ex 12:18; 1Co 5:8

WAS FORMED INTO

• Loaves
- 1Sa 10:3,4; Mt 14:17
• Cakes
- 2Sa 6:19; 1Ki 17:13
• Wafers
- Ex 16:31; 29:23

WAS BAKED

• On hearths
- Ge 18:6
• On coals of fire
- Isa 44:19; Joh 21:9
• In ovens
- Le 26:26; Ho 7:4-7

Making of, a trade - Ge 40:2; Jer 37:21

Ordinary, called common bread - 1Sa 21:4

Sacred, called hallowed bread - 1Sa 21:4,6

Nutritious and strengthening - Ps 104:15

When old, dry and mouldy - Jos 9:5,12

Often put for the whole substance of man - Ge 3:19; 39:6; Mt 6:11

The principal food used by the ancients - Ge 18:5; 21:14; 27:17; Jud 19:5

Broken for use - La 4:4; Mt 14:19

Kept in baskets - Ge 40:16; Ex 29:32

Publicly sold - Mt 14:15; 15:33

In times of scarcity, sold by weight - Le 26:26; Eze 4:16

Scarceness of, sent as a punishment - Ps 105:16; Isa 3:1; Eze 5:16

Plenty of, promised to the obedient - Le 26:5

Often given as a present - 1Sa 25:18; 2Sa 16:12; 1Ch 12:40

Served round after funerals - Eze 24:17-22

With water, the food of prisons - 1Ki 22:27

Crumb of, used to wipe the fingers, thrown under the table - Mt 15:27; Lu 16:21

First fruit of, offered to God - Nu 15:19,20

Offered with sacrifices - Ex 29:2,23; Nu 28:2

Placed on table of shew bread - Ex 25:30

Multitudes miraculously fed by Christ with - Mt 14:19-21; 15:34-37

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of Christ
- Joh 6:33-35
• (When broken,) of the death of Christ
- Mt 26:26; 1Co 11:23,24
• (Partaking of,) of communion of saints
- Ac 2:46; 1Co 10:17
• (Want of,) of extreme poverty
- Pr 12:9; Isa 3:7
• (Seeking of begging,) of extreme poverty
- 1Sa 2:36; Ps 37:25; La 1:11
• (Fulness of,) of abundance
- Eze 16:49
• (Eating without scarceness,) of plenty
- De 8:9
• (Of adversity,) of heavy affliction
- Isa 30:20
• (Of tears,) of sorrow
- Ps 80:5
• (Of deceit,) of unlawful gain
- Pr 20:17
• (Of wickedness,) of oppression
- Pr 4:17
• (Of idleness,) of sloth
- Pr 31:27
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