KJV King James Version
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:
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Samuel 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:
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.
WEB World English Bible
But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.
ASV American Standard Version
But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the men are very good to us, and have not put us to shame, and we have not looked after anything all the days we have gone up and down with them, in our being in the field;
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 25
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 railed on them.
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:
16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he [is such] a son of Belial, that [a man] cannot speak to him.
18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched [corn], and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid [them] on asses.
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וְהָ֣אֲנָשִׁ֔יםH582 · e.noshhumanטֹבִ֥יםH2896 · tovpleasantלָ֖נוּH9035 · nuusמְאֹ֑דH3966 · me.odmuchוְלֹ֤אH3808 · lonotהָכְלַ֙מְנוּ֙H3637 · ka.lambe humiliatedוְלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotפָקַ֣דְנוּH6485 · pa.qadto reckon: listמְא֔וּמָהH3972 · me.u.mahanythingכָּל־H3605 · kolallיְמֵי֙H3117 · yomdayהִתְהַלַּ֣כְנוּH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentאִתָּ֔םH854 · etwithבִּֽהְיוֹתֵ֖נוּH1961 · ha.yahto beבַּשָּׂדֶֽה׃H7704 · sa.daySirion
Cross-references
1 Samuel 25:21Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this [fellow] hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that [pertained] unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.1 Samuel 25:7And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.Philippians 2:15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
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