Isaiah 36:17

And of corn and wine, &c.— It is added in 2 Kings 18:32 a land of oil-olive and of honey. It is still usual among the Arabs to dip their bread in oil of olives. Maillet tells us, that the poor people of Egypt use, out of necessity, a sort of oil drawn from a plant called cirica, and that the Jews, through sparingness, make use of it in the preparation of many of their meats; which must make, he observes, a detestable cookery. Rabshakeh seems to refer to these kinds of oil. See Observations, p. 138.