1 Samuel 16:20

World English Bible (2000)

Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.

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  • 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But certain worthless fellows said, "How shall this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no present. 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 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news."
  • 1 Sam 25:18 : 18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
  • 2 Sam 16:1-2 : 1 When David was a little past the top [of the ascent], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. 2 The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? 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 such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.
  • Gen 43:11 : 11 Their father, Israel, said to them, "If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;

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  • 1 Sam 16:18-19
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    18 Then one of the young men answered, and said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him."

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

  • 2 Sam 16:1-2
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    1 When David was a little past the top [of the ascent], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

    2 The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? 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 such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.

  • 1 Sam 17:17-18
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    17 Jesse said to David his son, "Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers;

    18 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news."

  • 1 Sam 25:18
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    18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

  • 1 Sam 16:21-22
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    21 David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

    22 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight."

  • 1 Sam 16:1-3
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    1 Yahweh said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons."

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

    3 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you."

  • 1 Sam 16:10-12
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    10 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, "Yahweh has not chosen these."

    11 Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your children here?" He said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is keeping the sheep." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him; for we will not sit down until he comes here."

    12 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he."

  • 2 Chr 2:15
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    15 "Now 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
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    28 brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched [grain], and beans, and lentils, and parched [pulse],

    29 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, 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
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    23 It happened, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.

  • 1 Sam 17:20
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    20 David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.

  • 1 Sam 22:13
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    13 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 inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

  • 1 Chr 12:40
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    40 Moreover those who were near to them, [even] as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal, cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and cattle, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Israel.

  • Gen 45:23
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    23 He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.

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

  • 1 Sam 9:3
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    3 The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. 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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    24 The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it.

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

  • 1 Sam 17:31
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    31 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
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    15 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 10:3-4
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    3 "Then you shall go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor; and three men shall meet you there going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

    4 and they will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive of their hand.

  • 1 Sam 22:10
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    10 He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."

  • 1 Sam 9:7
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    7 Then Saul said to his servant, "But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?"

  • 1 Chr 16:3
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    3 He dealt to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
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    5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

  • 2 Sam 6:19
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    19 He dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a cake of bread, and a portion [of flesh], and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed everyone to his house.

  • 1 Sam 19:15
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    15 Saul sent the messengers 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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    5 He said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

    6 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, "Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him."

  • 1 Sam 17:34
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    34 David said to Saul, "Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,

  • 1 Sam 9:23
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    23 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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    5 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
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    19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything."

  • Judg 6:19
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    19 Gideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."

  • 1 Sam 25:20
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    20 It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.

  • 1 Sam 30:26
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    26 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 Yahweh."

  • 1 Sam 30:11
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    11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.

  • 1 Sam 30:16
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    16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, 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
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    27 He spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me." They saddled it.