Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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1 Samuel 25:18
Took two hundred loaves - The Eastern bread is ordinarily both thin and small; and answers to our cakes.
Two bottles of wine - That is, two goat-skins full. The hide is pulled off the animal without ripping up; the places where the legs, etc., were are sewed up, and then the skin appears one large bag. This is properly the Scripture and Eastern bottle. There is one such before me.
Five sheep - Not one sheep to one hundred men.
Clusters of raisins - Raisins dried in the sun.
Cakes of figs - Figs cured, and then pressed together. We receive the former in jars, and the latter in small barrels; and both articles answer the description here given.
Now all this provision was a matter of little worth, and, had it been granted in the first instance, it would have perfectly satisfied David, and secured the good offices of him and his men. Abigail showed both her wisdom and prudence in making this provision. Out of three thousand sheep Nabal could not have missed five; and as this claim was made only in the time of sheep-shearing, it could not have been made more than once in the year: and it certainly was a small price for such important services.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing 1 Samuel 25:18:
1 Samuel 30:12
2 Samuel 16:1
2 Samuel 16:1
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