They sat down to eat bread, to refresh themselves, their consciences being stupified, and their hearts hardened against their brother, notwithstanding all his most passionate entreaties to them, Gen_42:21.
Ishmeelites; the posterity of Ishmael. See Gen_25:18.
Gilead, a famous place for balm, and other excellent commodities, and for the confluence of merchants. See Jer_8:22 22:6.
Balm, or rosin, as the ancient and divers other translators render it.