1 Samuel 30:12

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.

1 Samuel 30:12 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 30:12

And they gave him a piece of cake of figs
That were dried and pressed together, and made into cakes:

and two clusters of raisins;
or dried grapes, as the Targum:

and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him;
he seemed to be quite dispirited, almost lifeless, but upon eating some food he was refreshed, and his spirits revived, and he was capable of conversing:

for he had eaten no bread, nor drank [any] water, three days and three
nights;
that is, one whole day, and part of two days, as appears from ( 1 Samuel 30:13 ) .

1 Samuel 30:12 In-Context

10 because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit.

11 Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—

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.

13 Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.

14 We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”