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of the widow, in which her meal was held, (1 Kings xrii. 12, 14) 

 was not, probably, very large ; but those four in which the water 

 was brought up from the sea, at the bottom of mount Carmel, to 

 pour upon Elijah's sacrifice and altar, must have been large, 1 Kings 

 xviii. 33. We read also of the water-jugs, or jars of stone, of con- 

 siderable size, into which our Lord caused the water to be con- 

 verted into wine, John ii. 6. 



Grapes were also dried into raisins. A part of Abigail's present 

 to David, was 100 clusters of raisins (1 Sam. xxv. 18); and when 

 Ziba met David, his present contained the same quantity, 2 Sam. 

 xvi. 1 ; 1 Sam. xxx. 12 ; 1 Chron. xii. 40. 



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