1 Samuel 25:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

So David's young men turned away, and went back, and came and told him all these words.

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  • 2 Sam 24:13 : 13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.
  • Isa 36:21-22 : 21 But they held their peace and answered him not a word, for the king's order was, Do not answer him. 22 Then Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
  • Heb 13:17 : 17 Obey those who rule over you, and submit to them, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you.

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  • 1 Sam 25:13-15
    3 verses
    82%

    13 And David said to his men, Each of you gird on his sword. And each one girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

    14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed on them.

    15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, nor did we miss anything, as long as we were associating with them, when we were in the fields.

  • 1 Sam 25:7-9
    3 verses
    81%

    7 And now I have heard that you have shearers; now your shepherds that were with us, we did not harm them, nor was there anything missing from them, all the while they were in Carmel.

    8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, let the young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a good day. Please give whatever you can to your servants and to your son David.

    9 And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and then they stopped.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    77%

    24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, This is what David spoke.

  • 1 Sam 30:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    21 And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had also made to stay at the brook Besor: and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he greeted them.

    22 Then all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, answered and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.

    23 Then said David, You shall not do so, my brethren, with what the LORD has given us, who has preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Sam 25:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

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

    5 And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name;

  • 1 Sam 25:11
    76%

    11 Shall I take my bread, my water, and the meat I have prepared for my shearers, and give it to men whom I do not know from where they are?

  • 1 Sam 23:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 Then David said, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver you up.

    13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah; and he refrained from going forth.

  • 1 Sam 17:30-31
    2 verses
    74%

    30 He turned from him to another and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before.

    31 When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 25:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20 And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the hill, behold, David and his men were coming down toward her, and she met them.

    21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missing of all that belonged to him, and he has repaid me evil for good.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
    74%

    22 And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    74%

    9 And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your harm?

  • 2 Sam 11:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22 So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him.

    23 And the messenger said to David, Surely the men prevailed against us and came out to us in the field, and we drove them back as far as the entrance of the gate.

  • 1 Chr 19:5
    74%

    5 Then certain people went and told David how the men were treated. And he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.

  • 1 Sam 24:7
    74%

    7 So David restrained his servants with these words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave and went on his way.

  • 1 Sam 23:3
    73%

    3 And David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

  • 1 Chr 12:17
    73%

    17 And David went out to meet them, and said to them, If you have come peacefully to help me, my heart shall be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see and judge.

  • 2 Sam 15:13
    73%

    13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.

  • 2 Sam 1:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 And David said to him, How did the matter go? Please, tell me. And he answered, The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people are also fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead as well.

    5 And David said to the young man who told him, How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

  • 1 Sam 30:15
    73%

    15 And David said to him, Can you bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this company.

  • 1 Sam 30:17
    73%

    17 And David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and none of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode upon camels, and fled.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
    73%

    15 And the king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king shall appoint.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
    73%

    15 But David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

  • 1 Chr 12:1
    73%

    1 Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag, while he kept himself hidden because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

  • 2 Sam 2:15
    73%

    15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, belonging to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    72%

    11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring news to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, Thus did David, and so will be his way all the time he dwells in the country of the Philistines.

  • 2 Sam 1:15
    72%

    15 And David called one of the young men and said, Go near, and strike him. And he smote him that he died.

  • 1 Sam 26:22
    72%

    22 And David answered and said, "Behold the king's spear! Let one of the young men come over and get it."

  • 2 Sam 10:5
    72%

    5 When they told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.

  • 1 Sam 21:2
    72%

    2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a matter, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.

  • 1 Sam 24:1
    72%

    1 And it came to pass, when Saul returned from following the Philistines, that it was told to him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    72%

    9 And David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothes, and returned and came to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 23:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25 Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David; therefore, he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

    26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men, intending to capture them.

  • 1 Sam 30:9
    72%

    9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

  • 1 Sam 17:20
    72%

    20 David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, took the provisions, and went as Jesse had commanded him; he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for battle.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    72%

    7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 1 Chr 12:23
    72%

    23 Now these are the numbers of the divisions that were ready for war, and came to David at Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 23:1
    72%

    1 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they are robbing the threshing floors.