1. 1 Samuel 16:20 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why does Jesse send lots of gifts to Saul?

1 Samuel 16:20 (ESV)

20 And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.

It would be a great honour to Jesse for one of his sons to serve in the court of Saul. In sending a gift, he acted in accordance with the wisdom revealed in Proverbs 18:16.1