When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine — Ziba appears with provisions at the critical moment of David's flight. His gifts—bread, raisins, summer fruits, wine—sustain the king's retinue materially. Yet Ziba's timing and generosity conceal a scheme: he seeks to gain advantage over his master Mephibosheth during this moment of upheaval. The provisions are genuine, but the motive is self-serving.

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