Why not a proper dosage of Whine?
Compassion... because you have to figure that after a 40 day-impasse -- what to do what to do -- the captain needed a little cheese to go with his whine:
1 Samuel 1716 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
17. And Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to your brothers:
18. And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and look how your brothers fare, and take a sign from them: