Raisins
FRUIT
Plant food — the dietary laws of Leviticus 11 concern animals
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 4 verses (KJV)
Fruit
Description
Raisins — grapes dried in the sun — were compact, sweet, and traveled well, which made them a practical gift for anyone on the move. Abigail packed a hundred clusters of them for David’s hungry men, valued enough to serve as emergency rations.
Key verses
“Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.”
1 Samuel 25:18
Fun fact
A cake of raisins and figs revived an abandoned Egyptian slave found starving in the wilderness (1 Samuel 30:12).
All 4 referencesshow
- 1 Chronicles 12:40
- 1 Samuel 25:18
- 1 Samuel 30:12
- 2 Samuel 16:1