1 Samuel 25:11
Good News Translation
I'm not going to take my bread and water, and the animals I have butchered for my sheepshearers, and give them to people who come from I don't know where!"

New Revised Standard Version
Shall I take my bread and my water and the meat that I have butchered for my shearers, and give it to men who come from I do not know where?”

Contemporary English Version
What makes you think I would take my bread, my water, and the meat that I've had cooked for my own servants and give it to you? Besides, I'm not sure that David sent you!

New American Bible
Must I take my bread, my wine, my meat that I have slaughtered for my own shearers, and give them to men who come from who knows where?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?

Shall I then

1 Samuel 25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal: and the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a prudent and very comely woman: but her husband was churlish, and very bad and ill natured: and he was of the house of Caleb.

1 Samuel 24:13 As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall wickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?

Deuteronomy 8:17 Lest thou shouldst say in thy heart: My own might, and the strength of my own hand have achieved all these things for me.

Judges 8:6 The princes of Soccoth answered: Peradventure the palms of the hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hand, and therefore thou demandest that we should give bread to thy army.

Job 31:17 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:

Psalm 73:7,8 Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart. . . .

1 Peter 4:9 Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,

flesh [heb] slaughter

Ecclesiastes 11:1,2 Cast thy bread upon the running waters: for after a long time thou shalt find it again. . . .

Galatians 6:10 Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

whom

1 Samuel 25:14,15 But one of the servants told, Abigail, the wife of Nabal, saying: Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute our master: and he rejected them. . . .

John 9:29,30 We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not from whence he is. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:9 As dying and behold we live: as chastised and not killed:

Context
David, Nabal, and Abigail
10But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee from their masters. 11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?12So the servants of David went back their way, and returning came and told him all the words that he said.…
Cross References
Judges 8:6
The princes of Soccoth answered: Peradventure the palms of the hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hand, and therefore thou demandest that we should give bread to thy army.

Judges 8:15
And he came to Soccoth, and said to them: Behold Zebee, and Salmana, concerning whom you upbraided me, saying: Peradventure the hands of Zebee and Salmana are in thy hands, and therefore thou demandest that we should give bread to the men that are weary and faint.

1 Samuel 25:7
I have heard that thy shepherds that were with us in the desert were shearing: we never molested them, neither was there ought missing to them of the flock at any time, all the while they were with us in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:12
So the servants of David went back their way, and returning came and told him all the words that he said.

1 Samuel 25:10
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