1 Samuel 25:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

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?

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  • Judg 8:6 : 6 The princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?
  • 1 Sam 24:13 : 13 As says the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be on you.
  • 1 Sam 25:3 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 25:14-15 : 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. 15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields:
  • Job 31:17 : 17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless has not eaten of it
  • Ps 73:7-8 : 7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit. 8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
  • Eccl 11:1-2 : 1 Cast your bread on the waters; For you shall find it after many days. 2 Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; For you don't know what evil will be on the earth.
  • John 9:29-30 : 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from." 30 The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
  • 2 Cor 6:9 : 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
  • Gal 6:10 : 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
  • 1 Pet 4:9 : 9 Be hospitable one to another without grumbling.
  • Deut 8:17 : 17 and [lest] you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

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  • 1 Sam 25:4-10
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    85%

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

    5David 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:

    6and thus shall you tell him who lives [in prosperity], Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

    7Now I have heard that you have shearers: your shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel.

    8Ask 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.

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

    10Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master.

  • 1 Sam 25:25-27
    3 verses
    78%

    25Please 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 did send.

    26Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, seeing 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.

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

  • 1 Sam 25:12-15
    4 verses
    77%

    12So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

    13David said to his men, Gird you on every man his sword. They girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.

    14But 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.

    15But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields:

  • 1 Sam 25:31-40
    10 verses
    76%

    31that 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 shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.

    32David said to Abigail, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me:

    33and blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

    34For in very deed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, except 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 man-child.

    35So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said to her, Go up in peace to your house; behold, I have listened to your voice, and have accepted your person.

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

    37It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

    38It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.

    39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal has Yahweh returned on his own head. David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.

    40When the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.

  • 1 Sam 25:17-21
    5 verses
    75%

    17Now 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.

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

    19She said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she didn't tell her husband, Nabal.

    20It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.

    21Now 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: and he has returned me evil for good.

  • 1 Sam 25:2
    73%

    2There 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.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    72%

    23Then said David, You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Sam 23:11-12
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    71%

    11Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come down.

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

  • Ps 50:13
    71%

    13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

  • 1 Sam 21:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business, 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 the young men to such and such a place.

    3Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.

  • 1 Sam 22:15
    71%

    15Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.

  • Judg 19:19
    71%

    19Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything.

  • Gen 14:24
    70%

    24Except only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their portion."

  • 2 Sam 12:4
    70%

    4A traveler came to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man who had come to him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man who had come to him."

  • 1 Chr 21:23
    70%

    23Ornan said to David, Take it to you, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: behold, I give [you] the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all.

  • Num 11:13
    70%

    13Whence should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

  • 1 Sam 30:15
    70%

    15David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? He said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.

  • 2 Sam 3:35
    70%

    35All the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun be down.

  • 1 Sam 26:18
    70%

    18He said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

  • Gen 30:31
    70%

    31He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

  • 2 Chr 2:15
    69%

    15Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants:

  • Job 22:7
    69%

    7You haven't given water to the weary to drink, And you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • Judg 19:21
    69%

    21So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder; and they washed their feet, and ate and drink.

  • 1 Sam 18:18
    69%

    18David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?