²⁰ And Jesse took five cakes of bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them to Saul by David.

²⁷ But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.

¹⁶ A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.

¹⁸ And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.

¹¹ And take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have been an error;

¹⁸ Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

¹ And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.

² And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.