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1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Abigail acts after her servants warn her of impending disaster over her husband Nabal’s household, moving to intercept David before he strikes.
The words — וַ/תְּמַהֵ֣ר (va./te.ma.Her) = she made haste and וַ/תִּקַּח֩ (va./ti.Kach) = she took.
The thread — The pattern of urgent provision meeting a leader appears when Ziba brings supplies to David in 2 Samuel 16:1, while the warning against delay echoes Proverbs 6:4 and the principle that a strategic gift opens doors in Proverbs 18:16.
Why it lands — The text records Abigail’s rapid assembly of provisions to avert crisis, requiring the reader to recognize how timely, substantial action can intercept impending judgment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
Cross-references
- 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 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 Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
- Genesis 43:11 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 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.”
- 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.”
- 2 Samuel 17:28 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.