Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him—This was a present in unison with the peasant character she assumed. Cracknels are a kind of sweet seed-cake. The prophet was blind, but having received divine premonition of the pretended countrywoman's coming, he addressed her as the queen the moment she appeared, apprised her of the calamities which, in consequence of the ingratitude of Jeroboam, his apostasy, and outrageous misgovernment of Israel, impended over their house, as well as over the nation which too readily followed his idolatrous innovations.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Kings 14:9:
1 Kings 16:7
Isaiah 38:17
Jeremiah 16:12
Ezekiel 23:35
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