1 Samuel 25:12

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David’s men turned and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word.

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  • 2 Sam 24:13 : 13 So Gad went to David and said to him, "Shall there come seven years of famine in your land? Or shall you flee from your enemies for three months while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now think it over and decide how I should reply to the One who sent me."
  • Isa 36:21-22 : 21 But the people remained silent and did not answer him a word, because the king had commanded, 'Do not answer him.' 22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the household; Shebna, the scribe; and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
  • Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will give an account. Allow them to do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

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  • 82%

    13 David said to his men, "Each of you, strap on your sword!" So they did, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men went with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

    14 One of Nabal’s young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, "David sent messengers from the wilderness to bless our master, but he screamed insults at them.

    15 These men were very good to us. They didn’t harm us, nor did we lose anything during all the time we were with them in the fields.

  • 1 Sam 25:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    7 I have heard that you are shearing your sheep. While your shepherds were with us, we did not harm them, nor was anything of theirs missing during their time in Carmel.

    8 Ask your servants, and they will confirm this. Therefore, may my men find favor in your eyes, because we have come on a festive day. Please give whatever you can spare to your servants and to your son, David.’"

    9 When David’s young men arrived, they delivered this message to Nabal in David’s name and waited.

  • 24 When Saul’s servants reported back what David had said,

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    21 Then David returned to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and had stayed behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the troops with him, and David greeted them warmly.

    22 Then all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, "Since they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and leave."

    23 But David said, "You must not act this way, my brothers, with what the Lord has given us. He has protected us and delivered the raiding party that came against us into our hands.

  • 1 Sam 25:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 While in the wilderness, David heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

    5 David sent ten young men and instructed them, "Go to Carmel, find Nabal, and greet him on my behalf.

  • 11 Should I take my bread, my water, and the meat I’ve slaughtered for my shearers and give it to men from who knows where?"

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    12 Then David said, 'Will the leaders of Keilah hand me and my men over to Saul?' The LORD replied, 'They will hand you over.'

    13 So David and his men, about six hundred in number, left Keilah and moved wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he stopped his pursuit.

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    30 Then he turned away to another man and asked the same question, and the people answered him as before.

    31 When David's words were heard, they were reported to Saul, and he sent for him.

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    20 As she was riding her donkey down into a ravine, David and his men were descending toward her, and she met them.

    21 David had just been saying, "It’s been for nothing that I guarded everything belonging to this man in the wilderness. Nothing was missing, yet he has repaid me evil for good.

  • 22 Now swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or destroy my name from my father's family.

  • 9 David got up afterward, went out of the cave, and called after Saul, 'My lord the king!' When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down with his face to the ground and paid homage.

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    22 The messenger set out, and when he arrived, he reported to David everything Joab had sent him to say.

    23 The messenger said to David, 'The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate.'

  • 5 When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet them, because the men had been greatly humiliated. The king said, 'Stay in Jericho until your beards grow back, and then return.'

  • 7 He said to his men, 'The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my lord, the LORD’s anointed, by raising my hand against him, for he is the LORD’s anointed.'

  • 3 But David's men said to him, "We are afraid here in Judah. How much more if we go to Keilah to face the battle lines of the Philistines!"

  • 17 Some men from Benjamin and Judah also came to David at the stronghold.

  • 13 Then a messenger came to David and reported, 'The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.'

  • 2 Sam 1:4-5
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    4 David said to him, 'What happened? Tell me.' He answered, 'The people fled from the battle, and many fell and died. Saul and Jonathan, his son, are also dead.'

    5 David asked the young man who brought him the report, 'How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?'

  • 15 David asked him, "Can you lead me to this raiding party?" He answered, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me nor hand me over to my master, and I will lead you to them."

  • 17 David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. None of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.

  • 15 The king’s servants replied to him, 'Your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.'

  • 15 But David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

  • 1 These are the men who came to David at Ziklag while he was still banished because of Saul, son of Kish. They were among the warriors who helped in battle.

  • 15 So they stood up and were counted—twelve from Benjamin and from the followers of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David.

  • 11 David did not leave alive a man or woman to bring to Gath, for he thought, "They might inform against us, saying, 'This is what David did.'" This was his practice the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.

  • 15 Then David called one of his young men and said, 'Come here and strike him down.' So he struck him, and he died.

  • 22 David answered and said, "Here is the king's spear. Let one of the young men come over and take it.

  • 5 When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said, 'Stay at Jericho until your beards grow back, and then return.'

  • 2 David went to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he met David and said to him, 'Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?'

  • 1 David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En-gedi.

  • 9 David attacked the land and did not leave alive a man or woman. He took sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing, and then he returned and went to Achish.

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    25 When Saul and his men began searching for him, David was told about it. He then went down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard this, he pursued David into the wilderness of Maon.

    26 Saul was going along one side of the mountain, and David and his men were on the other side, hurrying to get away from Saul. But as Saul and his forces were closing in on David and his men to capture them,

  • 9 David and the six hundred men with him set out, and they came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind.

  • 20 Early in the morning, David left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry.

  • 7 When David heard of this, he sent Joab and all the army of mighty warriors.

  • 23 These are the numbers of men equipped for war who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, as the LORD had spoken.

  • 1 Then they reported to David, saying, "Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are looting the threshing floors."