2 Samuel 16:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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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.

When David was a little past the top, х meehaaro'sh (H7218)] - the head or summit of the mountain. [The Septuagint renders it: apo tees Roos, as if it were the name of the place.]

Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him. This crafty man, anticipating the certain failure of Absalom's conspiracy, took steps to prepare for his future advancement on the restoration of the king.

An hundred of summer fruits, х qayits (H7019)] - summer-fruit harvest, special harvest of figs. х uwmee'aah (H3967) qayits (H7019) is considered by Gesenius as elliptical for uwmee'aah dªbeelowt qayits, a hundred cakes of figs.]

A bottle of wine - a large goat-skin vessel. Its size made the supply of wine proportioned to the rest of his present (see the notes at Joshua 9:4).

2 Samuel 16:1

1 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.