2 Samuel 16:1 meaning and explanation
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
2 Samuel 16:1, Berean Standard Bible
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David is fleeing Jerusalem barefoot and weeping after his son Absalom's coup, and just past the summit of the Mount of Olives he meets Ziba, the steward of Mephibosheth, Jonathan's crippled son. Ziba brings saddled donkeys and a large load of bread, raisins, summer fruit and wine, provisions for a king on the run.
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