Bread
Bread
Given by God - Ru 1:6; Mt 6:11
Yielded by the earth - Job 28:5; Isa 55:10
MADE OF
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
WAS BAKED
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 Next Topic (Breastplate)