1 Samuel 16:20

New American Bible - revised edition

Then Jesse took five loaves of bread, a skin of wine, and a young goat, and sent them to Saul with his son David.

Cross References

Genesis 43:11

Israel their father then told them: “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the land’s best products in your baggage and take them down to the man as gifts: some balm and honey, gum and resin, and pistachios and almonds.

Proverbs 18:16

Gifts clear the way for people, winning access to the great.

1 Samuel 10:27

But some worthless people said, “How can this fellow save us?” They despised him and brought him no tribute.

1 Samuel 10:4

They will greet you and offer you two elevated offerings of bread, which you should accept from them.

1 Samuel 16:19

Accordingly, Saul dispatched messengers to ask Jesse to send him his son David, who was with the flock.

1 Samuel 17:18

Also take these ten cheeses for the field officer. Greet your brothers and bring home some token from them.

1 Samuel 25:18

Abigail quickly got together two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of pressed raisins, and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.