1 Samuel 25:15

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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.

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  • 1 Sam 25:7 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 25:21 : 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.
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverted generation. Among them, you shine as lights in the world,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 25:16
    86%

    16They were a wall of protection around us, both night and day, the whole time we were with them tending the sheep.

  • 1 Sam 25:4-9
    6 verses
    79%

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

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

    6Say this to him: ‘Peace to you! Peace to your household, and peace to all that you have!’

    7I 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.

    8Ask 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.’"

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

  • Gen 26:28-29
    2 verses
    77%

    28They replied, "We have clearly seen that the LORD has been with you. So we said, 'There should now be an oath between us and you; let us make a covenant with you.'"

    29"You must not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have always treated you well and sent you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the LORD."

  • 1 Sam 25:14
    76%

    14One 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.

  • 1 Sam 25:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

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

    21David 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.

  • 1 Sam 30:21-23
    3 verses
    72%

    21Then 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.

    22Then 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."

    23But 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 25:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

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

    12David’s men turned and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word.

  • Judg 19:19-22
    4 verses
    72%

    19We have straw and feed for our donkeys, as well as bread and wine for me, your servant, for the woman with me, and for the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing."

    20The old man said, "Peace to you! Let me take care of all your needs, but do not spend the night in the square."

    21He brought him into his house and provided fodder for the donkeys. They washed their feet, ate, and drank.

    22While they were enjoying themselves, some wicked men of the city surrounded the house. They pounded on the door and said to the old man, the owner of the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him."

  • 1 Sam 25:32-34
    3 verses
    72%

    32David said to Abigail, 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me.

    33Blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

    34Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has prevented me from harming you, if you had not hurried to come to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning.

  • Josh 2:14
    71%

    14The men said to her, "Our lives for your lives! If you don't tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the LORD gives us the land."

  • Gen 42:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30They said, 'The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.'

    31'But we said to him, "We are honest men, not spies.

  • 1 Sam 23:3
    69%

    3But 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!"

  • Num 10:32
    69%

    32If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives to us."

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    69%

    29They also brought honey, butter, sheep, and cheese from cattle for David and the people with him to eat. They said, 'The people are hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.'

  • 1 Sam 29:6
    69%

    6So Achish called David and said to him, "As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your conduct with me in the camp has been good in my eyes. I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until today. But the rulers don’t approve of you.

  • 1 Chr 12:17
    68%

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

  • 1 Sam 25:2
    68%

    2There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was very wealthy and owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    68%

    31and to those in Hebron and in all the other places where David and his men had roamed.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
    68%

    5David went out and was successful in everything Saul sent him to do. Saul gave him command over the soldiers, and he was well-liked by everyone, including Saul’s officers.

  • 1 Sam 14:9
    68%

    9If they say to us, 'Wait there until we come to you,' we will stay in our place and not go up to them.

  • Acts 28:21
    68%

    21They replied, 'We have not received any letters about you from Judea, nor has any of the brothers who came here reported or said anything bad about you.'

  • 1 Sam 30:2
    68%

    2The Amalekites had taken the women and everyone in the city captive, from the youngest to the oldest. They had not killed anyone but had taken them away as prisoners and gone on their way.

  • Deut 1:25
    68%

    25Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it back to us. And they reported, 'The land that the LORD our God is giving us is good.'

  • 1 Sam 24:18
    68%

    18He said to David, 'You are more righteous than I, for you have treated me well, but I have treated you badly.'

  • 1 Sam 25:26-27
    2 verses
    68%

    26Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, the Lord has kept you from shedding blood and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those intent on harming my lord be as foolish as Nabal.

    27Now let this gift that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

  • 2 Kgs 7:9
    68%

    9Then they said to each other, "What we’re doing is not right. This is a day of good news, and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go and report this at the royal palace."

  • Ps 144:14
    68%

    14May our oxen be strong for heavy labor, with no breach or leaving of the gates, and no outcry in our streets.

  • 1 Sam 12:4
    68%

    4They replied, 'You have not defrauded us, oppressed us, or taken anything from anyone’s hand.'

  • 1 Chr 16:20
    68%

    20they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    68%

    15Saul answered, 'They brought them from the Amalekites; the people spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we have utterly destroyed.'

  • Ps 55:14
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    14But it is you, a man like me, my companion and my close friend.

  • 1 Sam 18:14
    68%

    14David succeeded in everything he did because the LORD was with him.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    67%

    9David 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.