1 Samuel 25:18 Cross References - NSB

¹⁸ So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two full wineskins, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, one hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred fig cakes and loaded them on donkeys.

¹³ Jacob stayed there that night. Then he prepared a gift for his brother Esau from what he had brought with him: ¹⁴ There were two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred female sheep and twenty male sheep, ¹⁵ also thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. ¹⁶ He placed servants in charge of each herd. He said to his servants: »Go ahead of me, and maintain a distance between the herds.« ¹⁷ He commanded the first servant: »When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and whose animals are these ahead of you?’ ¹⁸ »Say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. This is a gift sent to you. Jacob is directly behind us.’« ¹⁹ He also commanded the second servant, the third, and all the others who followed the herds. He said: »Say the same thing to Esau when you find him. ²⁰ »Be sure to say, ‘Jacob is right behind us.’« He thought: »I will make peace with him by giving him this gift that I am sending ahead of me. After that, I will see him, and he will welcome me back.«

¹¹ Their father Israel said: »If that is the way it has to be, then take the man a gift. Put some of the best products of the land in your bags. Take a little balm, a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds. ¹² »Take twice as much money with you, because you must take back the money that was returned in the top of your sacks. Maybe it was a mistake. ¹³ »Take your brother and return at once. ¹⁴ »May God Almighty cause the man to have pity on you, so that he will give Benjamin and your other brother back to you. As for me, if I must lose my children, I must lose them.«

⁴⁶ Moses said to Aaron: »Take your incense burner, put burning coals from the altar and incense in it, and go quickly into the congregation to make peace with Jehovah for the people. Jehovah shows his anger! A plague has started.« ⁴⁷ Aaron took his incense burner, as Moses told him. He ran into the middle of the assembly, because the plague had already begun among the people. He put incense on the incense burner to make peace with Jehovah for the people. ⁴⁸ He stood between those who had died and those who were still alive. The plague stopped.

³⁴ »I solemnly promise as Jehovah the God of Israel lives that if you had not come to meet me Nabal would not have had one of his men alive at dawn.«

¹ David started down the other side of the Mount of Olives. He met Ziba, the chief servant of Mephibosheth. Ziba had two donkeys that were carrying two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred figs, and some wine.

²⁸ Here is a list of what they brought: sleeping mats, blankets, bowls, pottery jars, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, ²⁹ Also honey, yogurt, sheep, and cheese. They brought food for David and the others because they knew that everyone would be hungry, tired, and thirsty from being out in the desert.

⁴⁰ People from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. Vast supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine; olive oil, cattle, and sheep were brought to the celebration. There was great joy throughout the land of Israel

⁴ Do this before you fall asleep. Do not allow your eyes to close. ⁵ Deliver your self like a deer from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler (bird catcher).

¹⁶ A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifies anger. A bribe behind the back provokes strong anger.

²⁵ »Come to an agreement quickly with the one who has a legal case against you. Do it before he turns the case over to the judge and you are thrown into jail.