Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of
A man’s gift opens doors for him, and brings him before great men.
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the j
And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, an
A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.
Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in you
They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,
Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come
Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation