1 Samuel 25:10

And Nabal sprang up, and answered the servants of David, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jessae? Now-a-days there is abundance of servants who depart every one from his master.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

In Context

9So the servants come and speak these words to Nabal, according to all these words in the name of David.

11And shall I take my bread, and my wine, and my + 25:11 Gr. slaying. beasts that I have slain for + 25:11 Gr. them that shear my sheep. my shearers, and shall I give them to men of whom I know not whence they are?

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Cross References

Exodus 5:2And Pharao said, Who is he that I should listen to his voice, so that I should send away the children of Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I + 5:2 Gr. do not let, etc. will not let Israel go.

1 Samuel 20:30And Saul was exceedingly angry with Jonathan, and said to him, You son of + 20:30 Lit. deserting in a military sense. traitorous damsels! for do I not know that you are an accomplice with the son of Jessae to your shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

1 Samuel 22:7And Saul said to his servants that stood by him, Hear now, you⌃ sons of Benjamin, will the son of Jessae indeed give all of you fields and vineyards, and will he make you all captains of hundreds and captains of thousands?

1 Kings 12:16-17 And all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them: and the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we any inheritance in the son of Jessae. Depart, O Israel, to your tents: now feed your own house, David. So Israel departed to his tents.

Psalms 123:3verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: 1

Isaiah 32:5And they shall no more at all tell a fool to rule, and your servants shall no more at all say, Be silent.

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 →

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