² The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.

²⁹ and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

⁴ He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

¹⁰ Tell [of it], you who ride on white donkeys, You who sit on rich carpets, You who walk by the way.

¹⁸ When the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?

⁶ Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; And wine to the bitter in soul:

⁷ Let him drink, and forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more.

²⁶ He answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.

²³ All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

¹ It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

²⁷ Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

²⁸ Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day. The people were faint.

⁴ Gideon came to the Jordan, [and] passed over, he, and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.

⁵ He said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

⁸ Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

²⁹ Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"