16:1 When David had gone a short way beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a couple of donkeys that were saddled, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred raisin cakes, a hundred baskets of summer fruit, 5 and a container of wine.
1 tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”
2 tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “honored.”
4 tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”
5 tn Heb “a hundred summer fruit.”