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

Otherwise, as surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any men left by morning light.”

Then Moses told Aaron, “Take your firepan, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the community and make atonement for them, because wrath has come from the Lord; the plague has begun.”

Don’t give sleep to your eyes
or slumber to your eyelids.

Reach a settlement quickly with your adversary while you’re on the way with him, or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, the judge to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.

Took two

He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:

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 take them down to the man as a gift—some balsam and some honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.

brought beds, basins, and pottery items. They also brought wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

A gift opens doors for a man
and brings him before the great.

A secret gift soothes anger,
and a covert bribe, fierce rage.

Clusters

When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba, Mephibosheth’s servant, was right there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a skin of wine.

General references

She rewards him with good, not evil,
all the days of her life.