1 Samuel 25:17

World English Bible (2000)

Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him."

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  • 1 Sam 20:7 : 7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
  • Deut 13:13 : 13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known;
  • Judg 19:22 : 22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may have sex with him!"
  • 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.
  • 1 Sam 20:9 : 9 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn't I tell you that?"
  • 1 Sam 20:32-33 : 32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" 33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
  • 1 Sam 25:25 : 25 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
  • 2 Sam 23:6-7 : 6 But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can't be taken with the hand, 7 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire in their place."
  • 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, 'You cursed God and the king!' Then carry him out, and stone him to death."
  • 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 The two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him. The base fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king!" Then they carried him out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.
  • 2 Kgs 5:13-14 : 13 His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn't you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean?'" 14 Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
  • 2 Chr 13:7 : 7 There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
  • 2 Chr 25:16 : 16 It happened, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, "Have we made you one of the king's counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?" Then the prophet stopped, and said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel."
  • Esth 7:7 : 7 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

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  • 1 Sam 25:25-27
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    79%

    25 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

    26 Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

    27 Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

  • 1 Sam 10:27
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    27 But certain worthless fellows said, "How shall this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

  • 1 Sam 25:14
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    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 at them.

  • Judg 19:22-23
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    73%

    22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may have sex with him!"

    23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, "No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; since this man is come into my house, don't do this folly.

  • 1 Sam 20:7
    72%

    7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

  • 1 Sam 25:21
    72%

    21 Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

  • 2 Sam 23:6
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    6 But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can't be taken with the hand,

  • 1 Sam 2:12
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    12 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 20:1
    71%

    1 There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!"

  • 1 Sam 25:34
    71%

    34 For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall."

  • 1 Sam 25:8-11
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    8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.'"

    9 When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

    10 Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

    11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?"

  • 1 Sam 25:16
    71%

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

  • Judg 20:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that is happen among you?

    13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel." But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 13:7
    70%

    7 There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

  • 2 Sam 19:27
    70%

    27 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.

  • 2 Sam 16:7
    70%

    7 Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!

  • 2 Sam 19:7
    70%

    7 Now therefore arise, go out, and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now."

  • Isa 31:2
    69%

    2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • 1 Sam 30:22
    69%

    22 Then all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, "Because they didn't go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart."

  • Deut 13:13
    69%

    13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known;

  • 1 Sam 25:18
    69%

    18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

  • Prov 17:11
    69%

    11 An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

  • 1 Kgs 2:9
    69%

    9 Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood."

  • 1 Sam 25:2-5
    4 verses
    69%

    2 There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

    3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

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

    5 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.

  • 2 Sam 16:11
    69%

    11 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

  • Mic 2:3
    69%

    3 Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

  • Nah 1:11
    69%

    11 There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

  • 1 Sam 25:36
    68%

    36 Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

  • 1 Sam 25:30-31
    2 verses
    68%

    30 It shall come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over Israel,

    31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid."

  • Ps 36:3-4
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    68%

    3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

    4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
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    13 As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness;' but my hand shall not be on you.

  • 2 Sam 14:7
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    7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."

  • 2 Sam 3:25
    68%

    25 You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do."

  • 1 Sam 17:28
    68%

    28 Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle."

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    68%

    16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • Gen 44:7
    68%

    7 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

  • 1 Sam 26:19
    67%

    19 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'