1 Samuel 25:18

Translations

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Original

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Notes

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Events

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• Reign of Saul

Measurements

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• five seahs of roasted grain: About 33 qt (36.5 l)

Related verses

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• 2 Samuel 16:1
  When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
• Proverbs 6:4–5
  Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
• Proverbs 18:16
  A man’s gift opens doors for him, and brings him before great men.
• Matthew 5:25
  Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.
• Genesis 32:13–20
  Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
• 1 Samuel 25:34
  Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
• Proverbs 21:14
  A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.
• Genesis 43:11–14
  Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.
• Numbers 16:46–48
  Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
• 2 Samuel 17:28–29
  They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,
• 1 Chronicles 12:40
  And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

People

Abigail: Wife of Nabal, later married David

Glossary

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Abigail· David· Donkey· Fig, Fig Tree· Food and Food Preparation· John the Baptist· Meunim, Meunites· Nabal· Raisin· Samuel, Books of First and Second· Warfare· Weights and Measures

Topics

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Bottles: Made of Skins: Sometimes Probably of Large Dimensions· Bread: How Prepared: Made Into Loaves· Bread: Often Given As a Present· Corn: Parched· Decision: Abigail· Fig: Cakes of, Sent by Abigail to David· Food: Articles of Dried Fruit· Measure: A Seah, About a Peck and a Half· Nabal: History of· Presents: Often Conveyed on Camels· Presents: Things Given as Food· Prudence: Abigail, in Averting David's Anger· Raisins: Given by Abigail to David· Sheep: Flesh of, Extensively Used As Food· Tact: Nabal's Wife· The Diet of the Jews: Articles of, often Sent As Presents· The Diet of the Jews: Articles Used for Dried Fruit· the Domestic Donkey was Used for Bearing Burdens· The Fig-Tree: Fruit of Sent As Presents· The Vine: The Fruit of Eaten Dried· Wife: Tactful Abigail· Wine was Kept in Bottles· Wine: Custom of Presenting to Travellers