1 Samuel

A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.

And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:

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.