Barnes New Testament Notes

Verse 15. After those days. After what had occurred, as related in the previous verses.

We took up our carriages. This is a most unhappy translation. The word carriage we apply now exclusively to a vehicle for conveying anything -- as a coach, chariot, gig, cannon-carriage, etc. The original word means simply, that they prepared themselves; made themselves ready; put their baggage in order, etc. aposkeuasamenoi. They prepared for the journey. The English word carriage was formerly used in the sense of that which is carried -- baggage, burden, vessels, furniture, etc. Thus it was used in the time that our translation was made; and in this sense it is to be understood in 1 Sa 17:22, "And David left his carriage (baggage) in the hand of the keeper of the carriage," etc. See Ac 21:20, margin. Isa 10:28, "At Michmash he hath laid up his carriages," [his baggage, etc.]

{*} "carriages" "Baggage"