Discovery Box2 Samuel 6:19 
Context6:19 He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, 1 both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, 2 and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home. 3
2 Samuel 13:10
Context13:10 Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the cakes into the bedroom; then I will eat from your hand.” So Tamar took the cakes that she had prepared and brought them to her brother Amnon in the bedroom.
2 Samuel 24:7
Context24:7 Then they went to the fortress of Tyre 4 and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beer Sheba.
1 tn Heb “to all the people, to all the throng of Israel.”
2 tn The Hebrew word used here אֶשְׁפָּר (’espar) is found in the OT only here and in the parallel passage found in 1 Chr 16:3. Its exact meaning is uncertain, although the context indicates that it was a food of some sort (cf. KJV “a good piece of flesh”; NRSV “a portion of meat”). The translation adopted here (“date cake”) follows the lead of the Greek translations of the LXX, Aquila, and Symmachus (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).
3 tn Heb “and all the people went, each to his house.”
4 map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
