1 Samuel 25:18
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
Note 5 seahs is approximately 33 dry quarts or 36.5 liters of roasted grain.
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
Note clusters: or, lumps
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.
Note 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- made haste
- 1 Samuel 25:34; Numbers 16:46–48; Proverbs 6:4, 5; Matthew 5:25
- took two
- The Eastern bread is generally both thin and small; and answers to our cakes.
- Genesis 32:13–20; Genesis 43:11–14; 2 Samuel 17:28, 29; Proverbs 18:16; Proverbs 21:14
- clusters
- Heb. lumps. Raisins dried in the sun.
- 2 Samuel 16:1