But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.
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But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.
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But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
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But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields;
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Passages linked to 1 Samuel 25:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 25:7 Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:21 Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.
- Philippians 2:15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain When we kept our sheep in the wilderness of…
When we kept our sheep in the wilderness of Paran.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 25:15 But the men [were] very good unto…
1Sa 25:15 But the men [were] very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
Ver. 15. And we were not hurt.] So strict was David’s military discipline; so was afterwards Tamerlane’s; {a} who punished with death that soldier of his that but took an apple, or a little milk, &c., from another, without permission.
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{a} Turk. Hist., 216.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But the men were very good unto us,.... Very…
But the men were very good unto us,.... Very kind and civil, yea, very useful and serviceable, even all the messengers David sent and Nabal railed on, yea, all David's men, and therefore deserved better treatment than they met with from Nabal:
and we were not hurt; neither by them nor others:
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neither missed we anything: of our flocks, or anything belonging to us; they neither robbed us themselves, nor suffered others to rob us:
as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields; feeding the sheep by them: thus he confirms everything that David said of himself and his men; see Gill on Sa1 25:7, and says even more of them to their commendation, as follows.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. as long as we were conversant with them]…
15. as long as we were conversant with them] Lit. all the days we went to and fro with them. “Conversant” from Lat. conversari, to dwell or abide with, signifies “associated” or “living along with.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) But the men were very good unto us.—The…
(15) But the men were very good unto us.—The “young man” in question who spoke thus to his mistress, Abigail, was evidently one in high authority in the sheep farms of Nabal. His testimony in 1Sa_25:15-16, respecting David is clear and decisive, and occurring as it does in the heart of an episode most discreditable to David, it bears weighty testimony to the admirable discipline and the kind forethought of the son of Jesse in times when lawlessness and pillage would have been, if not excusable, certainly to be expected. The great powers of the future king were admirably displayed in this difficult period of his life. Few men could have so moulded a wild company of free lances into a force which, according to the rather unwilling testimony of these shepherds of Nabal’s, was positively a blessing to the country, instead of being, as these bands of free lances usually have been, a terrible curse.
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