1 Samuel 16:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

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  • 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts. But he held his peace.
  • Prov 18:16 : 16 A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
  • 1 Sam 17:18 : 18 Carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand and see how your brothers fare and take their pledge.
  • 1 Sam 25:18 : 18 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep already prepared, five measures of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
  • 2 Sam 16:1-2 : 1 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. 2 And the king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? And Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.
  • Gen 43:11 : 11 And their father Israel said to them, If it must be so, then do this; take some of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down a gift for the man, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:

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  • 1 Sam 16:18-19
    2 verses
    83%

    18Then one of the servants answered and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty valiant man, a man of war, prudent in speech, a handsome person, and the LORD is with him.

    19Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.

  • 2 Sam 16:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    1And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

    2And the king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? And Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.

  • 1 Sam 17:17-18
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    80%

    17Jesse said to David his son, Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to your brothers.

    18Carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand and see how your brothers fare and take their pledge.

  • 1 Sam 25:18
    75%

    18Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep already prepared, five measures of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

  • 1 Sam 16:21-22
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    73%

    21And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

    22And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray you, stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight.

  • 1 Sam 16:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1And the LORD said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.

    2And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.

    3And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint for me him whom I name to you.

  • 1 Sam 16:10-12
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    72%

    10Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The LORD has not chosen these.

    11And Samuel said to Jesse, Are these all your children? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he keeps the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and bring him: for we will not sit down till he comes here.

    12And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and with a beautiful countenance, and good to look upon. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

  • 2 Chr 2:15
    71%

    15Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants:

  • 2 Sam 17:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,

    29And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of cows, for David and for the people who were with him to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

  • 1 Kgs 13:23
    71%

    23And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the donkey, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

  • 1 Sam 17:20
    71%

    20David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, took the provisions, and went as Jesse had commanded him; he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for battle.

  • 1 Sam 22:13
    71%

    13And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

  • 1 Chr 12:40
    71%

    40Moreover, those who were near them, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen; provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine and oil, oxen and sheep in abundance, for there was joy in Israel.

  • Gen 45:23
    71%

    23And to his father he sent in this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and food for his father for the journey.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
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    57When David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 1 Sam 9:3
    70%

    3And the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the donkeys.

  • 1 Sam 28:24-25
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    70%

    24The woman had a fat calf in the house; she hurried, killed it, and took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

    25And she brought it before Saul and his servants; and they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that night.

  • 1 Sam 17:31
    70%

    31When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
    70%

    15But David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 10:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3Then you shall go forward from there, and you shall come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet you three men going up to God at Bethel, one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

    4And they will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread; which you shall receive from their hands.

  • 1 Sam 22:10
    69%

    10And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

  • 1 Sam 9:7
    69%

    7Then said Saul to his servant, But behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread is gone from our vessels, and there is no present to bring to the man of God: what do we have?

  • 1 Chr 16:3
    69%

    3And he gave to every person in Israel, both man and woman, a loaf of bread, a good piece of meat, and a flagon of wine.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
    69%

    5And David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

  • 2 Sam 6:19
    69%

    19And he gave to all the people, even the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and men, to everyone a cake of bread, a good piece of meat, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed, each to his house.

  • 1 Sam 19:15
    69%

    15And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.

  • 1 Sam 16:5-6
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    69%

    5And he said, Peaceably: I have come to sacrifice to the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

    6And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him.

  • 1 Sam 17:34
    69%

    34David said to Saul, Your servant kept his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

  • 1 Sam 9:23
    68%

    23And Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, Set it aside.

  • 1 Sam 25:5
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    5And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name;

  • Judg 19:19
    68%

    19Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and there is bread and wine also for me, for your maidservant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything."

  • Judg 6:19
    68%

    19And Gideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: he put the meat in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    68%

    24And the servants of Saul told him, saying, This is what David spoke.

  • 1 Sam 25:20
    68%

    20And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the hill, behold, David and his men were coming down toward her, and she met them.

  • 1 Sam 30:26
    68%

    26And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;

  • 1 Sam 30:11
    68%

    11And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they made him drink water;

  • 1 Sam 30:16
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    16And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 13:27
    68%

    27And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. And they saddled it.