The Diet of the Jews
43 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
22 sections
- A Hymn Sung After
- Articles of, often Sent As Presents
- Articles Used for Bread
- Articles Used for Butter
- Articles Used for Cheese
- Articles Used for Dried Fruit
- Articles Used for Fish
- Articles Used for Flesh
- Articles Used for Fruit
- Articles Used for Herbs
- Articles Used for Honey
- Articles Used for Milk
- Articles Used for Oil
- Articles Used for Parched Corn
- Articles Used for Vinegar
- Articles Used for Water
- Articles Used for Wine
- Expressed by Bread and Water
- Generally Prepared by Females
- Men and Women did not Partake of Together
- Purification Before
- Thanks Given Before
A Hymn Sung After
- Matthew 26:30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Articles of, often Sent As Presents
- 1 Samuel 17:18 Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.
- 1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- 1 Samuel 25:27 Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.
- 2 Samuel 16:1–2 When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer …
Articles Used for Bread
- Genesis 18:5 And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
- 1 Samuel 17:17 One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
Articles Used for Butter
- Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
- 2 Samuel 17:29 honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”
Articles Used for Cheese
- 1 Samuel 17:18 Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.
- Job 10:10 Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
Articles Used for Dried Fruit
- 1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- 1 Samuel 30:12 a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
Articles Used for Fish
- Matthew 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
- Luke 24:42 So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish,
Articles Used for Flesh
- 2 Samuel 6:19 Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each to his own home.
- Proverbs 9:2 She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
Articles Used for Fruit
- 2 Samuel 16:2 “Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”
Articles Used for Herbs
- Proverbs 15:17 Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
- Romans 14:2 For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables.
- Hebrews 6:7 For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
Articles Used for Honey
- Song of Solomon 5:1 I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.
- Isaiah 7:15 By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
Articles Used for Milk
- Genesis 49:12 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
- Proverbs 27:27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you— food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
Articles Used for Oil
- Deuteronomy 12:17 Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
- Proverbs 21:17 He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.
- Ezekiel 16:13 So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be queen.
Articles Used for Parched Corn
- Ruth 2:14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
- 1 Samuel 17:17 One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
Articles Used for Vinegar
- Numbers 6:3 he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
- Ruth 2:14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here; have some bread and dip it into the vinegar sauce.” So she sat down beside the harvesters, and he offered her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over.
Articles Used for Water
- Genesis 21:14 Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
- Matthew 10:42 And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
Articles Used for Wine
- 2 Samuel 6:19 Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each to his own home.
- John 2:3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”
- John 2:10 and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”
Expressed by Bread and Water
- 1 Kings 13:9 For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
- 1 Kings 13:16 But the man replied, “I cannot go home with you, and I will not eat bread or drink water with you in this place.
Generally Prepared by Females
- Genesis 27:9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father— the kind he loves.
- Proverbs 31:15 She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.
- Isaiah 8:13 The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.
Men and Women did not Partake of Together
- Genesis 18:8–9 Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate. …
- Esther 1:3 In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
- Esther 1:9 Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.
Purification Before
- 2 Kings 3:11 But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here? Let us inquire of the LORD through him.” And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”
- Matthew 15:2 “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
Thanks Given Before
- Mark 8:6 And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And they distributed them to the crowd.
- Acts 27:35 After he had said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.
Related topics
The Diet of the Jews was TakenThe Diet of the Jews of the Rich, LuxuriousThe Diet of the Jews was Taken in the EveningThe Diet of the Jews in EgyptThe Diet of the Jews in Patriarchal AgeThe Diet of the Jews of the Poor, Frugal
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.