²⁷ But some scoundrels^(A) said, “How can this fellow save us?” They despised him and brought him no gifts.^(B) But Saul kept silent.

²⁰ So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread,^(A) a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul.

³⁹ The men spent three days there with David, eating and drinking,^(A) for their families had supplied provisions for them.

⁴⁰ Also, their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules and oxen. There were plentiful supplies^(A) of flour, fig cakes, raisin^(B) cakes, wine, olive oil, cattle and sheep, for there was joy^(C) in Israel.