1 Samuel 25:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Made haste

Took two

Proverbs 21:14

Clusters

2 Samuel 16:1

General references

Proverbs 31:12

Bible References

Made haste

But {as Yahweh lives}, the God of Israel who has prevented me from harming you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, surely there would not have been {one male} left alive for Nabal by the light of morning!"

And Moses and Aaron said, "Take the censer, and put fire on it from the altar. Place incense [on it], and bring it quickly to the community, and make atonement for them, because wrath went out from the presence of Yahweh, and a plague has begun."

Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.

{Settle the case quickly with your accuser} while you are with him on the way, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

Took two

And he lodged there that night. Then he took {from what he had with him} a gift for Esau his brother:

Then their father Israel said to them, "If [it must be] so then do this. Take some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift--a little balm and honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, and pistachios and almonds.

brought beds and basins and objects of pottery, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

The gift of a person will open doors for him, and before the great, it gives him access.

A gift in secret will avert {anger}, and a {concealed bribe}, strong wrath.

Clusters

Now David passed a little from beyond the summit, and suddenly Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth [was] there to meet him [with] a pair of saddled donkeys; on them [were] two hundred loaves of bread and a hundred raisin cakes, [with] a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.

General references

She does him good, but not harm all the days of her life.