1 Samuel 25:18 - Abigail lost no time. She took 200 loaves of bread, 2 skins of wine, 5 dressed sheep, 2 seahs of roasted grain, 100 cakes of raisins and 200 cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
Abigail and her husband Nabal sound like wealthy people. They had servants. They had 1000 goats and 3000 sheep. They may have had much more that isn't even mentioned. But even so, I wonder that they had so much prepared food sitting around. We don't know how large these items were, but just imagine 200 loaves of bread, as many cakes of figs, and 100 cakes of raisins and how much space they would take even if they were fairly small. I wonder if they needed that much bread daily to feed all the servants. Or maybe they were also nomadic shopkeepers who sold this stuff. The cakes of raisins and figs probably kept pretty well in that climate. I wonder about the bread though -- unless it was prepared some special way so that it too didn't easily spoil.
After she gave all this to David and his men, I wonder if it needed to be replaced quickly back home for the family and servants or for the shop.
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