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Each One Will Sit Under His Fig TreeThe Watchtower—2003 | May 15
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The discreet woman Abigail gave David 200 cakes of pressed figs, no doubt thinking that this would be an ideal food for fugitives. (1 Samuel 25:18, 27) Pressed figs also had medicinal value. A poultice of pressed, dried figs was applied to a boil that threatened the life of King Hezekiah, though his subsequent recovery was principally due to divine intervention.a—2 Kings 20:4-7.
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Each One Will Sit Under His Fig TreeThe Watchtower—2003 | May 15
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a H. B. Tristram, a naturalist who visited the Bible lands in the middle of the 19th century, observed that the local people still used a poultice of figs for treating boils.
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