1 Samuel 25:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together in the field.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 25:7 : 7 Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel.
  • 1 Sam 25:21 : 21 Now David had been thinking,“In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 25:16
    86%

    16Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.

  • 1 Sam 25:4-9
    6 verses
    79%

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

    5he sent ten servants, saying to them,“Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name.

    6Then you will say to my brother,“Peace to you and your house! Peace to all that is yours!

    7Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel.

    8Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come at the time of a holiday. Please provide us– your servants and your son David– with whatever you can spare.”

    9So David’s servants went and spoke all these words to Nabal in David’s name. Then they paused.

  • Gen 26:28-29
    2 verses
    77%

    28They replied,“We could plainly see that the LORD is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us– between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

    29so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the LORD.”

  • 1 Sam 25:14
    76%

    14But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail,“David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our lord, but he screamed at them.

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

    20Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

    21Now David had been thinking,“In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.

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

    21Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

    22But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said,“Since they didn’t go with us, we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!”

    23But David said,“No! You shouldn’t do this, my brothers. Look at what the LORD has given us! He has protected us and has delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.

  • 1 Sam 25:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”

    12So David’s servants went on their way. When they had returned, they came and told David all these things.

  • Judg 19:19-22
    4 verses
    72%

    19We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing.”

    20The old man said,“Everything is just fine! I will take care of all your needs. But don’t spend the night in the town square.”

    21So he brought him to his house and fed the donkeys. They washed their feet and had a meal.

    22They were having a good time, when suddenly some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and kept beating on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house,“Send out the man who came to visit you so we can take carnal knowledge of him.”

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

    32Then David said to Abigail,“Praised be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!

    33Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!

    34Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives– he who has prevented me from harming you– if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”

  • Josh 2:14
    71%

    14The men said to her,“If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then, when the LORD hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you.”

  • Gen 42:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.

    31But we said to him,‘We are honest men; we are not spies!

  • 1 Sam 23:3
    69%

    3But David’s men said to him,“We are afraid while we are still here in Judah! What will it be like if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

  • Num 10:32
    69%

    32And if you come with us, it is certain that whatever good things the LORD will favor us with, we will share with you as well.”

  • 2 Sam 17:29
    69%

    29honey, curds, flocks, and cheese. For they said,“The people are no doubt hungry, tired, and thirsty there in the desert.”

  • 1 Sam 29:6
    69%

    6So Achish summoned David and said to him,“As surely as the LORD lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you serving with me in the army. I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion of the leaders, you are not reliable.

  • 1 Chr 12:17
    68%

    17David went out to meet them and said,“If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, may the God of our ancestors take notice and judge!”

  • 1 Sam 25:2
    68%

    2David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    68%

    31and Hebron; and for those in whatever other places David and his men had traveled.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
    68%

    5On every mission on which Saul sent him, David achieved success. So Saul appointed him over the men of war. This pleased not only all the army, but also Saul’s servants.

  • 1 Sam 14:9
    68%

    9If they say to us,‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay right there and not go up to them.

  • Acts 28:21
    68%

    21They replied,“We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor have any of the brothers come from there and reported or said anything bad about you.

  • 1 Sam 30:2
    68%

    2They took captive the women and all who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest, but they did not kill anyone. They simply carried them off and went on their way.

  • Deut 1:25
    68%

    25Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying,“The land that the LORD our God is about to give us is good.”

  • 1 Sam 24:18
    68%

    18You have explained today how you have treated me well. The LORD delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me.

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

    26“Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, it is the LORD who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.

    27Now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow my lord.

  • 2 Kgs 7:9
    68%

    9Then they said to one another,“It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. If we wait until dawn, we’ll be punished. So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”

  • Ps 144:14
    68%

    14Our cattle will be weighted down with produce. No one will break through our walls, no one will be taken captive, and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares.

  • 1 Sam 12:4
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    4They replied,“You have not wronged us or oppressed us. You have not taken anything from the hand of anyone.”

  • 1 Chr 16:20
    68%

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

  • 1 Sam 15:15
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    15Saul said,“They were brought from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”

  • Ps 55:14
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    14We would share personal thoughts with each other; in God’s temple we would walk together among the crowd.

  • 1 Sam 18:14
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    14Now David achieved success in all he did, for the LORD was with him.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    67%

    9When David would attack a district, he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish.