40 Also, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules and oxen. There were plentiful supplies(A) of flour, fig cakes, raisin(B) cakes, wine, olive oil, cattle and sheep, for there was joy(C) in Israel.

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40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.

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18 Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs[a] of roasted grain,(A) a hundred cakes of raisins(B) and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:18 That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms

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 an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

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David and Ziba

16 When David had gone a short distance beyond the summit, there was Ziba,(A) the steward of Mephibosheth, waiting to meet him. He had a string of donkeys saddled and loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred cakes of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs and a skin of wine.(B)

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16 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.

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Then a voice came from the throne, saying:

“Praise our God,
    all you his servants,(A)
you who fear him,
    both great and small!”(B)

Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude,(C) like the roar of rushing waters(D) and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:

“Hallelujah!(E)
    For our Lord God Almighty(F) reigns.(G)
Let us rejoice and be glad
    and give him glory!(H)
For the wedding of the Lamb(I) has come,
    and his bride(J) has made herself ready.

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And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.

And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

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37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives,(A) the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:

38 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!”[a](B)

“Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”(C)

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  1. Luke 19:38 Psalm 118:26

37 And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;

38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

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“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    “when I will raise up for David[a] a righteous Branch,(A)
a King(B) who will reign(C) wisely
    and do what is just and right(D) in the land.
In his days Judah will be saved
    and Israel will live in safety.(E)
This is the name(F) by which he will be called:
    The Lord Our Righteous Savior.(G)

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  1. Jeremiah 23:5 Or up from David’s line

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.

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When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice;(A)
    when the wicked rule,(B) the people groan.(C)

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When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

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10 When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices;(A)
    when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.(B)

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10 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

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20 All the people of the land rejoiced,(A) and the city was calm, because Athaliah had been slain with the sword at the palace.

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20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.

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40 And all the people went up after him, playing pipes(A) and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.

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40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

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27 When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi son of Nahash(A) from Rabbah(B) of the Ammonites, and Makir(C) son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and Barzillai(D) the Gileadite(E) from Rogelim 28 brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils,[a] 29 honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows’ milk for David and his people to eat.(F) For they said, “The people have become exhausted and hungry and thirsty in the wilderness.(G)

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  1. 2 Samuel 17:28 Most Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew lentils, and roasted grain

27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

28 Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,

29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

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