Treasury of Scripture
Baal-shalisha
1 Samuel 9:4,7 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not...
bread
2 Kings 4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him...
Exodus 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering...
Deuteronomy 12:6 And thither you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows...
Deuteronomy 26:2-10 That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which you shall bring of your land that the LORD your God gives you...
1 Samuel 9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels...
2 Chronicles 11:13,14 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts...
Proverbs 3:9,10 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your increase...
1 Corinthians 9:11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Galatians 6:6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teaches in all good things.
of barley
2 Kings 7:1,16-18 Then Elisha said, Hear you the word of the LORD; Thus said the LORD...
Deuteronomy 8:8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
Deuteronomy 32:14 Butter of cows, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat...
John 6:9,13 There is a lad here, which has five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many...
the husk thereof. or, his scrip, or garment. Note: Parched corn, or corn to be parched; full ears before they are ripe, parched on the fire: a very frequent food in the East. The loaves were probably extremely small, as their loaves of bread still are in eastern countries. But small as this may appear, it would be a considerable present in the time of famine; though very inadequate to the number of persons.
Baal-shalisha, of which the person who made this seasonable present was an inhabitant, was situated, according to Eusebius and Jerome, fifteen miles north of Diospolis, or Lydda.
