2 Samuel 16:1 (KJV)

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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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Cross-references

little past. 2Sa 15:30 2Sa 15:32

Ziba. 2Sa 9:2 2Sa 9:9-12

with a couple. 2Sa 17:27-29 2Sa 19:32 1Sa 17:17 1Sa 17:18 1Sa 25:18 1Ch 12:40 Pr 18:16 Pr 29:4 Pr 29:5

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. Jer 40:10 Jer 40:12 Am 8:1 Mic 7:1

a bottle. 1Sa 10:3 1Sa 16:20

20 Ahithophel's counsel.

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