1 Samuel 25:18

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Avigayil wasted no time in taking 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already prepared, six quarts of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins and 200 fig cakes, and having them loaded on donkeys. ¹⁸ And Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skin-bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched [corn], and a hundred raisin-cakes, and two hundred fig-cakes, and laid them on asses. ¹⁸ Abigail quickly gathered up 200 loaves of bread, two full wine bags, five cooked sheep, about a bushel of cooked grain, about 2 quarts of raisins, and 200 cakes of pressed figs. She put them on donkeys. ¹⁸ Then Avigayil made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. ¹⁸ 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 a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. ¹⁸ 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. ¹⁸ Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses. ¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste, and tooke two hundred loaues, and two bottels of wine, and fiue sheepe redie dressed, and fiue measures of parched corne, and an hundred frailes of reasynges, and two hundred cakes of fygges, & laded them on asses, ¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste, & tooke two hundreth cakes, & two bottels of wine, & fiue sheepe ready dressed, & fiue measures of parched corne, and an hundreth frailes of raisins, & two hundreth of figs, and laded them on asses. ¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves of bread and two skins of wine and five sheep ready dressed and five measures of parched wheat and one hundred cheeses and two hundred bunches of raisins, and laid them on asses.

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Cross-References

Genesis 2:11
The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.

Genesis 2:11
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:

Genesis 2:11
The name of one is Pishon: the same compasseth the whole land of Hauilah, where is golde.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:11
The first river is the Pishon; it flows around the country of Havilah.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the one, Phisom, this it is which encircles the whole land of Evilat, where there is gold.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dos botellas - Más bien, "dos pieles", cada una de las cuales contendría muchos galones. Estos vasos de cuero variaban en tamaño de acuerdo con la piel de la que estaban hechos y el uso que se les debía dar. El tipo más pequeño y más portátil, que no se puede llamar incorrectamente botellas, estaba hecho de la piel de un niño: los más grandes de la piel de una cabra. Los árabes invariablemente hasta el día de hoy llevan su leche, agua, etc., en tales recipientes de cuero. Una copa de vino era un hermoso regalo de Ziba, suficiente para la casa de David 2 Samuel 16:1. Las provisiones estaban todas listas para la mano de Abigail, después de haber sido provistas para la fiesta de la esquila de ovejas.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Versículo 1 Samuel 25:18 . Tomó doscientos panes.  El pan oriental normalmente es fino y pequeño ; y responde a nuestras tortas .

Dos botellas de vino.  Es decir, dos pellejos de cabra llenos. El pellejo se saca del animal sin rasgarlo; se cosen los lugares donde estaban las patas, etc., y entonces el pellejo parece una gran bolsa. Esto es propiamente la Escritura y la botella oriental. Hay una de estas ante mí.

Cinco ovejas.  No una oveja por cada cien hombres.

Racimos de pasas. Pasas secadas al sol.

Tortas de higos.  Higos curados, y luego prensados. Los primeros los recibimos en jarras, y los segundos en pequeños barriles, y ambos artículos responden a la descripción aquí dada.

Ahora bien, toda esta provisión era un asunto de poco valor, y, si se hubiera concedido en primera instancia, habría satisfecho perfectamente a David, y asegurado los buenos oficios de él y de sus hombres. Abigail mostró su sabiduría y prudencia al hacer esta provisión. De tres mil ovejas, a Nabal no le habrían faltado cinco; y como esta demanda se hizo sólo en el tiempo de la esquila de las ovejas, no podría haberse hecho más de una vez en el año: y ciertamente era un pequeño precio por tan importantes servicios.