Jérémie 41:8

La Bible Ostervald

Mais il se trouva parmi eux dix hommes qui dirent à Ismaël: Ne nous fais pas mourir; car nous avons dans les champs des provisions cachées de froment, d'orge, d'huile et de miel. Et il s'arrêta et ne les fit pas mourir avec leurs frères.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Mais il se trouva dix hommes entre eux qui dirent à Ismaël : ne nous fais point mourir, car nous avons dans les champs des amas secrets de froment, d'orge, d'huile, et de miel; et il les laissa, et ne les fit point mourir avec leurs frères.

Darby's French Translation
Et il se trouva parmi eux dix hommes qui dirent à Ismaël: Ne nous fais pas mourir, car nous avons des choses cachées dans la campagne, du froment, et de l'orge, et de l'huile, et du miel. Et il s'abstint, et ne les fit pas mourir parmi leurs frères.

Louis Segond (1910)
Mais il se trouva parmi eux dix hommes, qui dirent à Ismaël: Ne nous fais pas mourir, car nous avons des provisions cachées dans les champs, du froment, de l'orge, de l'huile et du miel. Alors il les épargna, et ne les fit pas mourir avec leurs frères.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Slay: Job 2:4, Psalms 49:6-8, Proverbs 13:8, Matthew 6:25, Matthew 16:26, Mark 8:36, Mark 8:37, Philippians 3:7-9

treasures: These "treasures hid in the field" were doubtless laid up in subterranean pits, similar to the mattamores in Barbary, in which, Dr. Shaw informs us, they deposit the grain when winnowed; two or three hundred of them being sometimes together, and the smallest holding four hundred bushels. The same mode of keeping corn prevails in Syria and the Holy Land.

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:26 - What profit 2 Kings 7:8 - hid it 1 Chronicles 27:25 - the storehouses Proverbs 21:20 - oil

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But ten men were found among them, that said unto Ishmael, slay us not,.... They begged for their lives, using what follows as an argument to prevail upon him:

for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey; not that they had then a stock upon the ground at this time; for this being the seventh month, not only the barley and wheat harvests had been over long ago, but the rest of the fruits of the earth were gathered in: but this either means storehouses of such things in the field; or else that these things were hid in cells under ground, the land having been invaded, to secure them from the enemy, as is common to do in time of war; and so Josephus says i, they promised to deliver to him things hid in the fields, household goods, clothes, and corn:

so he forbore, and slew them not among their brethren; but saved them, and kept and carried them with him, in order to take these hidden treasures, which lay in his way to Ammon; for between Gibeon, where he was found, Jeremiah 41:12; and Ammon, lay Samaria, Sichem, and Shiloh; at least it was not far out of his way to take that course; and thus he appears to be a covetous man, as well as a cruel one.

i Ibid. (Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 4.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Treasures - Hidden stores; which would be of great value to Ishmael in his retreat back to Baalis.