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.

²⁹ And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

⁴ And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.

¹⁰ Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.

¹⁸ And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?

⁶ Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

⁷ Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

²⁶ And he said in answer, Because of the deceit of my servant, my lord king: for I, your servant, said to him, You are to make ready an ass and on it I will go with the king, for your servant has not the use of his feet.

²³ And there was great weeping in all the country when all the people went through; and the king himself was waiting in the Kidron valley and all the people went by him in the direction of the olive-tree on the edge of the waste land.

¹ Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners to go before him.

²⁷ And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.

²⁸ Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food.

⁴ Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.

⁵ And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

⁸ And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.

²⁹ Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?