Cucumbers

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and onions, and garlic:

Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

okay this may not be anything new to you, but I have read these passages many times before. However, today these words just stood out or at least one of them. Maybe it is because I am watching my veggies grow - waiting each day for the produce that they will bring. I did not plant cucumbers, do not really care for the taste of them, but still that is the main word that stood out. Before today, I could not have even told you the word cucumbers was in the Bible...lol. However, it lead me on a search. I found two verses that listed the word - cucumbers. In Isaiah it talks about a lodge in the midst of a garden of cucumbers - a commentary talks about someone staying during the growing season to keep watch over the crop - who would have thought someone would be so desperate as to try to swipe all the cucumbers so that someone had to stand watch. The other thing that amazes me is how some of the same foods the people, who walked the pages of my Bible, ate are foods still available for us today. Can you just imagine sitting down to a meal with Paul and sharing a cucumber? just makes me smile to think of it. Another thing - this just makes the Bible even more real for me and shows me that the rest of the it is applicable for the here and now. Thanks for letting me share my ramblings today.