1 Samuel 25:18

David And Abigail

¹⁷ Now consider carefully what you must do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him!” ¹⁸ Abigail hurried, taking 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. ¹⁹ Then she said to her male servants, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

Loaves of Bread

Abigail

2 Samuel 16:1

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.

Genesis 32:13-20

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

Genesis 43:11-14

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.

Numbers 16:46-48

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.”

1 Samuel 25:34

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.”

2 Samuel 17:28-29

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

1 Chronicles 12:40

In addition, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came and brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant provisions of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine and oil, oxen, and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

Proverbs 6:4-5

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

Proverbs 18:16

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

Proverbs 21:14

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

Matthew 5:25

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.