Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs† of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 25:18 in context
1 Samuel 25:15–21
15
But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.
16
They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17
Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”
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Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs† of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
19
She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.
20
As she rode on her donkey, and came down hidden by the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.
21
Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.
Source notes
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- 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks
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