1 Kings 19:6

6 He looked, and behold, a bread cake on hot coals [was] near his head and a jar of water, so he ate and drank. Then he did it again and lay down.

1 Kings 19:6 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 19:6

And he looked, and, behold, [there was] a cake baked on the
coals
Just took off the coals, quite hot. Bochart ^F17 thinks it should be rendered, "baked on hot stones"; and such was the way of baking cakes in some of the eastern countries, (See Gill on Genesis 18:6), the stones hereabout might be heated by a supernatural power, and the cake baked on them by an angel; these sort of cakes are in Hebrew called "huggoth", as some pronounce the word, and are said to be now common in Bulgaria, where they are called "hugaces" ^F18:

and a cruse of water at his head;
to drink of in eating the cake; which cruse or pot a learned man ^F19 thinks was Elijah's, not brought by the angel, only water put into it by him; see ( 1 Samuel 26:11 ) , and he did eat and drink; but not all that was set before him:

and laid him down again;
to take some more sleep for his greater refreshment.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 2. c. 33. col. 528.
F18 Busbequius apud Calmet on the word "Bread".
F19 Schacchi Elaeochrism. Myrothec. l. 1. c. 44. col. 224.

1 Kings 19:6 In-Context

4 Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."

5 He lay down and fell asleep under a certain broom tree, and suddenly this angel [was] touching him and said to him, "Get up, eat!"

6 He looked, and behold, a bread cake on hot coals [was] near his head and a jar of water, so he ate and drank. Then he did it again and lay down.

7 The angel of Yahweh appeared a second [time] and touched him and said, "Get up, eat, for the journey is greater than you."

8 So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God.