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

Nevertheless, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from harming you, unless you had come quickly to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal until the morning light as much as one male.”

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!”

Give no sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;

Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

Took two

So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:

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 carry down to the man as a present, a little

balm and a little honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.

brought beds, basins, pottery, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans, lentils, parched seeds,

A man’s gift makes room for him
And brings him before great men.

A gift in secret subdues anger,
And a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.

Clusters

Now when David had passed a little beyond the summit, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a jug of wine.

General references

She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.