1 Samuel 25:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

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  • Job 1:10 : 10 Have you not made a hedge around him, around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
  • Exod 14:22 : 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
  • Jer 15:20 : 20 And I will make you to this people a fortified brass wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
  • Zech 2:5 : 5 For I, says the LORD, will be a wall of fire around her, and will be the glory in her midst.

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  • Neh 4:21-22
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    21 So we labored in the work, and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

    22 At the same time I also said to the people, Let every man and his servant stay at night in Jerusalem, that they may be a guard to us by night, and a labor force by day.

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    16 And they came near to him and said, We will build sheep pens here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones,

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    9 Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

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    28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we said, Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;

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  • Josh 2:14-17
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    14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if you do not reveal this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.

    15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

    16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers return: and afterward you may go your way.

    17 And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this your oath which you have made us swear.

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    7 And he said, Look, it is still broad daylight; it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.

    8 And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.

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    17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his household, for he is such a scoundrel that one cannot speak to him.

  • Exod 2:19
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  • Gen 46:32
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    32 And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, herds, and all that they have.

  • Gen 31:38
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    38 These twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten.

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    8 And there were shepherds in the same country, staying in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

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    19 Yet there is both straw and feed for our donkeys, and there is bread and wine also for me, for your maidservant, and for the young man who is with your servants. There is no lack of anything."

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    21 So he brought him into his house and fed the donkeys, and they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

    22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, surrounded the house, and beat at the door, and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him."

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    30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

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    32 Now therefore arise by night, you and the people with you, and lie in wait in the field.

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    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.

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    20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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    11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know or see anything until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.

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