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A Visit With Jesus
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CRACKNEL

Agriculture & Daily Life • Old Testament
A cracknel was probably a small, firm cake or biscuit with holes pricked into it. It was one of the foods Jeroboam’s wife was instructed to take when visiting the prophet Ahijah.
Biblical Usage
Jeroboam instructed his wife to take cracknels, or cakes, when she went to inquire of the prophet Ahijah concerning their son.