1 Samuel 16:20

Saul In Torment

¹⁹ So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep." ²⁰ Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and one kid, and sent them to Saul along with his son David. ²¹ David went to Saul and began to serve him. Saul loved him very much, and he became his armor bearer.

David

Jesse

Saul

1 Samuel 10:27

But some troublemakers said, "How can this man deliver us?" They despised him and did not bring him a gift. But Saul remained silent.

Proverbs 18:16

A person's gift opens doors for him, bringing him access to important people.

1 Samuel 17:18

Take these ten pieces of cheese to the commander of the unit, check on the well-being of your brothers, and bring something back from them.

Genesis 43:11

"If that's the way it has to be," their father Israel replied, "then do this: take some of the best produce of the land in your containers and take them to the man as a gift some resin ointment, some honey, fragrant resins, myrrh, pistachios, and almonds.

1 Samuel 25:18

Abigail quickly took 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five measures of roasted grain, 100 bunches of raisins, and 200 fig cakes and loaded them on donkeys.

2 Samuel 16:1-2

Now just as David happened to have passed the summit of the Mount of Olives, suddenly Mephibosheth's servant Ziba met him, accompanied by a couple of saddled donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 pieces of summer fruit, and a skin of wine!