Figs in the Old Testament

Use of figs in the Old Testament. Figs were often used in the history of Israel, especially dried figs. Abigail took two hundred cakes of figs to David (I Samuel 25:18). A cake of figs was given the Egyptian to revive him (I Samuel 30:12). And cakes of figs were brought to David at Hebron at a time of great rejoicing (I Chronicles 12:40). When King Hezekiah was sick, Isaiah told him to put a lump of figs on his boil, and the LORD healed him (II Kings 20:7). Jeremiah refers to the characteristic of figs, that some of them can be very good, and then again, they can be very bad (Jeremiah 24:1, 2). [Manners And Customs of Bible Lands]