Matthew 14:17

Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’ ” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’ ”

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”

Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.

Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’ ”

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.

“ ‘ “Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded wheat of Minnith, confections, honey, oil, and balm for your merchandise.

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”

But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?”

He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go see.” When they knew, they said, “Five, and two fish.”

He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.”

When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.”

Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little.”

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.

Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

I heard a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, “A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don’t damage the oil and the wine!”

A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.