Abigail's Groups of Five

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This thought of responsibility in connection with the number five will be found to have reference chiefly to relations between men; it is the aspect of responsibility from one man to another. The number ten carries much the same thought of responsibility, but it is chiefly with reference to God, and in relation to His claims.
In 1 Samuel 25:1818Then 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), Abigail takes multiples of five to David: 200 (5 x 40) loaves, 5 sheep, 5 measures of parched corn; 100 clusters of raisins, 200 cakes of figs. And (vs. 42) she took five damsels as her personal servants when she became David’s wife.
E. C. Pressland