Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Samuel 25:18

"Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses." — 1 Samuel 25:18 (ASV)

Five measures. — The Septuagint alters the measure to five ephahs, thinking the quantity in the text ridiculously small for such a host as followed David. Ewald, too, would change 5 to 500; but the truth is that Abigail, in her haste—rightly thinking that no time must be lost, as the danger was pressing—simply provided a liberal present for David’s own immediate followers, not for the whole force.

An hundred clusters of raisins. — That is, a hundred cakes of dried grapes—what in Italy is called “simmuki.”