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Scripture contains references to varied foodstuffs, which comprised the diet of the people of the Near East in biblical times.
Flour the main ingredient in bread Ge 18:6 See also Ex 29:2; Jdg 6:19; 1Sa 28:24; Mt 13:33 pp Lk 13:21
Flour figured largely in the staple diet 1Ki 17:12-16 See also 2Sa 17:27-29; 1Ki 4:22-23; 2Ki 4:41; 2Ki 7:1,16; 1Ch 12:40
Fine flour more refined and more expensive than the common variety Eze 16:13 See also Eze 16:19; Rev 18:11-13
Flour in grain offerings Lev 2:1-10 See also Lev 6:14-23; Lev 14:8-11; Nu 5:11-15; Nu 6:13-15; Nu 15:1-4; Nu 28:9; Nu 29:7-11; 1Ch 23:29; Eze 46:14
Flour in other offerings Lev 5:11 See also Ex 29:1-3,22-25; Lev 7:12; Lev 8:25-28; Lev 23:15-17
Honey a sweet delicacy Ge 43:11 See also Ex 16:31; Dt 32:13; Jdg 14:8-9; 1Sa 14:25-26; 2Sa 17:27-29; 1Ki 14:1-3; 2Ki 18:31-32 Honey’s sweetness and the sweetness of God’s law: Ps 19:10; Ps 119:103
Ps 81:13-16; SS 4:11; SS 5:1; Isa 7:22; Jer 41:8; Eze 16:13
The promised land described as flowing with milk and honey Ex 3:7-8 See also Ex 3:17; Ex 13:5; Ex 33:3; Lev 20:24 The spies confirm the goodness of the promised land: Nu 13:27; Nu 14:8
Nu 16:12-14; Dt 6:3; Dt 11:8-9; Dt 26:9; Dt 31:20; Jos 5:6; Jer 32:22; Eze 20:6,15
Prohibition against burning honey on the altar Lev 2:11
2Sa 16:1 See also Nu 6:1-4; 1Sa 25:18; 1Sa 30:11-12; 2Sa 6:19 pp 1Ch 16:3; 1Ch 12:40; SS 2:5; Hos 3:1
Ge 25:29-34 See also 2Sa 17:27-29; 2Sa 23:11-12; Eze 4:1-10
1Sa 17:17-18 See also 2Sa 17:27-29; Job 10:8-11
Ac 15:19-20 See also Ac 21:25; 1Co 8:1-13; Rev 2:14
4418 | bread |
4438 | eating |
4450 | fruit |
4474 | manna |
4476 | meals |
4478 | meat |
4480 | milk |
4532 | vegetables |
4612 | birds |
4642 | fish |
7402 | offerings |
8770 | idolatry, in NT |