1 Samuel 16:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 43:11

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry them down as a present to the man: a little balm and a little honey, gum, resin, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Proverbs 18:16

A gift opens doors; it gives access to the great.

1 Samuel 10:27

But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace. Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.

1 Samuel 10:4

They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from them.

1 Samuel 16:19

So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.”

1 Samuel 17:18

also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See how your brothers fare, and bring some token from them.”

1 Samuel 25:18

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys