1 Samuel 25:11
Am I to take my bread and my wine and the meat I have got ready for my wool-cutters and give it to men coming from I have no idea where?
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12So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:17Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
Judges 8:8So he went up from there to Penuel and made the same request to the men of Penuel; but they gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth had given.
1 Samuel 25:3Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.
Job 31:17If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
Ecclesiastes 11:1Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.
2 Corinthians 6:9Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 25:3-12
The Death of Samuel. ( b. c. 1057.) 1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. We have here a short account of Samuel's death and burial. 1. Though he was a great man, and one that was admirably well qualified for public service, yet he spent the latter end of his days in retirement and obscurity, not because he was superannuated (for he knew how to preside in a college of the… Read the whole commentary →