1 Samuel 25:13
And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.
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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
Joshua 9:14And the men took some of their food, without requesting directions from the Lord.
1 Samuel 23:13Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there.
1 Samuel 27:2So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
1 Samuel 30:21And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?
Proverbs 16:32He who is slow to be angry is better than a man of war, and he who has control over his spirit than he who takes a town.
Proverbs 19:11A man's good sense makes him slow to wrath, and the overlooking of wrongdoing is his glory.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 25:13-18
Abigail Wise Resolution. ( b. c. 1057.) 12 So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings. 13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And 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 stuff. 14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he… Read the whole commentary →