Mephibosheth’s Servant

16 When^(A) David was a little past the top of the mountain, there was ^(B)Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth, who met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, one hundred clusters of raisins, one hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste and ^(A)took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five seahs of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

³² Now it happened when David had come to the top of the mountain, where he worshiped God—there was Hushai the ^(A)Archite coming to meet him ^(B)with his robe torn and dust on his head.

Vision of the Summer Fruit

8 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.

¹² then all the Jews ^(A)returned out of all places where they had been driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruit in abundance.

¹⁰ As for me, I will indeed dwell at Mizpah and serve the Chaldeans who come to us. But you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”

⁴⁰ Moreover those who were near to them, from as far away as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing food on donkeys and camels, on mules and oxen—provisions of flour and cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, wine and oil and oxen and sheep abundantly, for there was joy in Israel.

³² Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. And ^(A)he had provided the king with supplies while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.

²⁷ Now it happened, when David had come to Mahanaim, that ^(A)Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the people of Ammon, ^(B)Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar, and ^(C)Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim, ²⁸ brought beds and basins, earthen vessels and wheat, barley and flour, parched grain and beans, lentils and parched seeds, ²⁹ honey and curds, sheep and cheese of the herd, for David and the people who were with him to eat. For they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty ^(D)in the wilderness.”