And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid , and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
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Gill's Exposition
And Jesse took an ass laden with bread,.... Laden with a load of bread, as the Targum; with as much as it could carry, or was used to carry; the Septuagint version is, an omer of bread, which was as…
Adam Clarke
Took an ass laden with bread - He must send a present to Saul to introduce his son, and this was probably the best he had. Dr. Warburton pleads still farther on the propriety of his rectification of…
We have here Saul falling and David rising.
I. Here is Saul made a terror to himself (Sa1 16:14): The Spirit of the Lord departed from him. He having forsaken God and his duty, God, in a way of…
Cambridge Bible
And Jesse took, &c. Cp. 1Sa 10:4; 1Sa 10:27. The character of the presents offered to the King shews the simplicity of the manners of the age. They were "the natural produce of the well known vines,…
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