1 Samuel 28:24

28:24 Now the woman ¹  had a well-fed calf ²  at her home that she quickly slaughtered. Taking some flour, she kneaded bread and baked it without leaven.

1 Samuel 25:23

25:23 When Abigail saw David, she got down quickly from the donkey, threw herself down before David, and bowed to the ground.

1 Samuel 25:42

25:42 Then Abigail quickly went and mounted her donkey, with five of her female servants accompanying her. ³  She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ⁴  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ⁵  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

[28:24]  ¹ sn Masoretic mss of the Hebrew Bible mark this word as the half-way point in the book of Samuel, treating 1 and 2 Samuel as a single book. Similar notations are found at the midway point for all of the books of the Hebrew Bible.

[28:24]  ² tn Heb “a calf of the stall.”

[25:42]  ³ tn Heb “going at her feet.”

[25:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “skins.”

[25:18]  ⁶ sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.