2 Samuel 17:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.

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  • 2 Sam 16:2 : 2 And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.
  • 2 Sam 16:14 : 14 And the king and his people came tired to Jordan, and took their rest there.
  • 2 Sam 17:2 : 2 And I will come up with him when he is tired and feeble, and make him full of fear: and all the people with him will go in flight; and I will make an attack on the king only:
  • Ps 34:8-9 : 8 By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him. 9 Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything. 10 The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
  • Eccl 11:1-2 : 1 Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again. 2 Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.
  • Isa 21:14 : 14 Give water to him who is in need of water; give bread, O men of the land of Tema, to those in flight.
  • Isa 58:7 : 7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
  • Luke 8:3 : 3 And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's chief house-servant, and Susanna and a number of others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs.
  • Rom 12:13 : 13 Giving to the needs of the saints, ready to take people into your houses.
  • Phil 4:15-19 : 15 And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only; 16 Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need. 17 Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit. 18 I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God. 19 And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.
  • Judg 8:4-6 : 4 Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food. 5 And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian. 6 But the chiefs of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand that we are to give bread to your army?
  • 1 Sam 17:18 : 18 And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.

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  • 2 Sam 17:28
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    28 Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,

  • 1 Sam 30:11-12
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    11 And in the fields they saw an Egyptian whom they took to David, and they gave him bread, and he had a meal, and they gave him water for drink;

    12 And they gave him part of a cake of figs and some dry grapes; and after the food, his spirit came back to him, for he had had no food or drink for three days and nights.

  • 1 Sam 17:17-18
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    17 And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

    18 And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.

  • 1 Sam 14:25-30
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    25 And there was honey on the face of the field, and all the people came to the honey, the bees having gone from it;

    26 But not a man put his hand to his mouth for fear of the curse.

    27 But Jonathan, having no knowledge of the oath his father had put on the people, stretching out the rod which was in his hand, put the end of it in the honey, and put it to his mouth; then his eyes were made bright.

    28 Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food.

    29 Then Jonathan said, My father has made trouble come on the land: now see how bright my eyes have become because I have taken a little of this honey.

    30 How much more if the people had freely taken their food from the goods of those who were fighting against them! would there not have been much greater destruction among the Philistines?

  • Deut 32:13-14
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    13 He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

    14 Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.

  • 1 Chr 12:39-40
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    39 For three days they were there with David, feasting at his table, for their brothers had made ready food for them.

    40 And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

  • 2 Sam 16:1-2
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    1 And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.

    2 And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.

  • Judg 19:19
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    19 But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.

  • 2 Sam 6:19
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    19 And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.

  • Isa 7:22
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    22 And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.

  • 1 Chr 16:3
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    3 And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.

  • 2 Sam 16:14
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    14 And the king and his people came tired to Jordan, and took their rest there.

  • 1 Kgs 4:23
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  • Ps 78:29
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    29 So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

  • 1 Sam 16:20
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    20 And Jesse took five cakes of bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them to Saul by David.

  • 1 Sam 30:20-21
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    20 And they took all the flocks and herds, and driving them in front of him, said, These are David's.

    21 And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

  • 2 Sam 3:35
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    35 And the people came to make David take food, while it was still day, but David with an oath said, May God's punishment be on me if I take a taste of bread or any other thing till the sun has gone down!

  • 1 Sam 28:25
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    25 And she put it before Saul and his servants, and they had a meal. Then they got up and went away the same night.

  • Gen 18:8
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    8 And he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had made ready and put it before them, waiting by them under the tree while they took food.

  • Num 11:13
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    13 Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
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    15 Now David went to and from Saul, looking after his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.

  • Ps 105:40
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    40 At the people's request he sent birds, and gave them the bread of heaven for food.

  • Num 11:22
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    22 Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be full?

  • Luke 6:3
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    3 And Jesus said, Have you not seen in the Writings what David did when he was in need of food, he, and those who were with him;

  • Ps 81:16
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    16 I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

  • Exod 29:23
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    23 And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

  • 2 Chr 2:15
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    15 So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

  • 1 Sam 14:32
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  • Exod 16:15
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    15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.

  • Num 31:33
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    33 And seventy-two thousand oxen,

  • Judg 14:9
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    9 And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his father and mother he gave some to them; but did not say that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.

  • Num 11:18
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    18 And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;

  • Ps 107:5
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    5 Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

  • 1 Sam 30:16
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    16 And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 25:12
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    12 So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.

  • 1 Sam 25:18
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    18 Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

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    12 This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up.