2 Samuel 17:29

La Bible David Martin

Du miel, du beurre, des brebis, et des fromages de vache; ils les amenèrent, [dis-je], à David, et au peuple qui était avec lui, afin qu'ils [en] mangeassent; car ils disaient : Ce peuple est affamé, et il est las, et il a soif dans ce désert.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Du miel, du beurre, des brebis, et des fromages de vache, pour se nourrir; car ils disaient: Ce peuple est affamé; il est las, et il a soif dans ce désert.

Darby's French Translation
et du miel, et du caillé, et du menu bétail, et des fromages de vache, pour David et pour le peuple qui était avec lui, pour qu'ils en mangeassent, car ils dirent: Le peuple a faim, et il est fatigué, et il a soif dans le désert.

Louis Segond (1910)
du miel, de la crème, des brebis, et des fromages de vache. Ils apportèrent ces choses à David et au peuple qui était avec lui, afin qu'ils mangeassent; car ils disaient: Ce peuple a dû souffrir de la faim, de la fatigue et de la soif, dans le désert.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cheese of kine: 1 Samuel 17:18

for David: Luke 8:3, Philippians 4:15-19

to eat: 2 Samuel 17:2, Psalms 34:8-10, Psalms 84:11

The people: Judges 8:4-6, Ecclesiastes 11:1, Ecclesiastes 11:2, Isaiah 21:14, Isaiah 58:7

in the wilderness: 2 Samuel 16:2, 2 Samuel 16:14

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:14 - Butter Judges 8:5 - loaves 1 Samuel 25:18 - took two Job 20:17 - of honey Isaiah 7:22 - butter and honey

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And honey and butter,.... Honey was much in use with the ancients; Homer b speaks of it as a part of the provisions at a feast, and as food with which persons were nourished and brought up; and the ancient Scythians lived on milk and honey c; and this and butter were pretty much the food of the people in Judea; see Isaiah 7:15;

and sheep; with which and goats the land of Gilead abounded; see Song of Solomon 4:1;

and cheese of kine: made of the milk of cows, as it commonly is:

for David, and for the people that [were] with him, to eat; and no doubt they brought wine with them for them to drink; the men that brought these, some brought one sort, and some another, or however different parcels of the same, and did not join in one present; for they came from different parts:

for they said, the people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness; where they had been some time, and out of which they had just come, and so weary with travelling, and therefore brought beds to lie down and rest upon; and being hungry and thirsty, through want of bread and water in the wilderness, they brought them both eatables and drinkables; for though the latter is not expressed, it is to be understood, as the word "thirsty" supposes.

b Iliad. 11. ver. 630. Odyss. 10. ver. 245. & Odyss. 20. ver. 72. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 3. c. 11. Sueton. Vita Nero. c. 27. c Justin e Trogo, l. 2. c. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Cheese of kine - Or, as others, “milch cows,” which is more in accordance with the context, being coupled with “sheep,” and is more or less borne out etymologically by the Arabic. God’s care for David was evident in the kindness of these people.