Verse 3
3. Cracknels נקדים , seems to denote a small sprinkled or punctured cake, baked hard for the purpose of keeping well during a long journey. Such small hard-baked biscuit are still used by the common people in the East. Compare Joshua 9:5, where the word is erroneously rendered mouldy. The bread, the cracknels, and the honey were to be used as honorary presents for the prophet, according to the customs of the times. See note on 1 Samuel 9:7.
What shall become of the child Henry well calls attention to the “notion of fatality” evinced in this inquiry of Jeroboam, and also in that of Ahaziah, (2 Kings 1:2,) and that of Ben-hadad. 2 Kings 8:8. They inquire simply what the end will be, not what means they should use for recovery.
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