2 Samuel 16:1
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.
And when David was a little past the top of the ascent, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and a hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- little past
- 2 Samuel 15:30, 32
- Ziba
- 2 Samuel 9:2, 9–12
- with a couple
- 2 Samuel 17:27–29; 2 Samuel 19:32; 1 Samuel 17:17, 18; 1 Samuel 25:18; 1 Chronicles 12:40; Proverbs 18:16; Proverbs 29:4, 5
- summer
- These were probably pumpkins, cucumbers, or water-melons; the two latter being extensively used in the East to refresh travellers in the burning heat of the summer; and probably, as Mr. Harmer supposes, called summer fruits on this very account.
- Jeremiah 40:10, 12; Amos 8:1; Micah 7:1
- a bottle
- 1 Samuel 10:3; 1 Samuel 16:20