1 Samuel 25:11
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I haue killed for my sherers, and giue it vnto men, whom I know not whence they be?
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In Context
12So Dauids seruants turned their way, and went againe, and came, and tolde him all those things.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:17Beware least thou say in thine heart, My power, and the strength of mine owne hand hath prepared me this abundance.
Judges 8:8And he went vp thence to Penuel, and spake vnto them likewise, and the men of Penuel answered him, as the men of Succoth answered.
1 Samuel 25:3The name also of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, and she was a woman of singular wisdome, and beautifull, but the man was churlish, and euil conditioned, and was of the familie of Caleb.
Job 31:17Or haue eaten my morsels alone, and the fatherles hath not eaten thereof,
Ecclesiastes 11:1Cast thy bread vpon the waters: for after many daies thou shalt finde it.
2 Corinthians 6:9As vnknowen, and yet knowen: as dying, and beholde, we liue: as chastened, and yet not killed:
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 →