1 Samuel 25:18 Cross References - MSTC

¹⁸ 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 a hundred bundles of raisins and two hundred frails of figs, and laded them on asses,

¹³ And he tarried there that same night, and took of that which came to hand, a present, unto Esau his brother: ¹⁴ Two hundred she goats and twenty he goats: two hundred sheep and twenty rams: ¹⁵ thirty milch camels with their colts: forty cows and ten bulls: twenty she asses and ten foals ¹⁶ and delivered them unto his servants, every drove by themselves, and said unto them, "Go forth before me, and put a space betwixt every drove." ¹⁷ And he commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau my brother meeteth thee and asketh thee, saying, 'whose servant art thou and whither goest thou, and whose are these that go before thee?' ¹⁸ thou shalt say, 'they be thy servant Jacob's, and are a present sent unto my lord Esau, and behold, he himself cometh after us.'" ¹⁹ And so commanded he the second, and even so the third, and likewise all that followed the droves, saying, "Of this manner see that ye speak unto Esau when ye meet him, ²⁰ and say moreover. 'Behold thy servant Jacob cometh after us.'" For he said, "I will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see him myself, so peradventure he will receive me to grace."

¹¹ Then their father Israel said unto them, "If it must needs be so now: then do thus, take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and bring the man a present, a courtesy balm, and a courtesy of honey, spices and myrrh, dates and almonds. ¹² And take as much money more with you. And the money that was brought again in your sacks, take it again with you in your hands, peradventure it was some oversight. ¹³ Take also your brother with you, and arise and go again to the man. ¹⁴ And God almighty give you mercy in the sight of the man and send you your other brother and also Benjamin, and I will be as a man robbed of his children."

⁴⁶ And Moses said unto Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire therein out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the LORD, and there is a plague begun." ⁴⁷ And Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran unto the congregation: and behold, the plague was begun among the people, and he put on cense, and made an atonement for the people. ⁴⁸ And he stood between the dead, and them that were alive, and the plague ceased.

³⁴ For in very deed — as sure as the LORD God of Israel liveth which hath kept me back from hurting thee — except thou hadst hasted and met me, there had not been left Nabal, by the dawning of the day, a pisser against the wall."

¹ And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth came against him with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves and one hundred bunches of raisins, and a hundred frayls of dried figs, and a bottle of wine.

²⁸ brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels: and also corn, barley, flour and parched corn, beans and rice, ²⁹ honey, butter, sheep and cheese of kine — for David, and all the people that were with him, to eat. For they supposed that the people should be hungry, fainty, and thirsty in the wilderness.

⁴⁰ Moreover, they that were nigh to them, as Issachar, Zebulun and, Naphtali, brought bread on asses, camels, mules and oxen, and meat: flour, figs, raisins, wine, oil, oxen, and sheep abundantly. For there was mirth in Israel.

⁴ let not thine eyes sleep, nor thine eyelids slumber. ⁵ Save thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

¹⁶ Liberality bringeth a man to honour and worship, and setteth him among great men.

¹⁴ A privy reward pacifieth displeasure; and a gift in the bosom stilleth furiousness.

²⁵ Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest that adversary deliver ye to the judge, and the judge deliver ye to the minister, and then thou be cast into prison.