He answered, “No! Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink, and let them go to their master.”
Proverbs 25:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to eat, and if they are thirsty, give them water to drink, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; [Matt. 5:44; Rom. 12:20.] American Standard Version (1901) If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: Common English Bible If your enemies are starving, feed them some bread; if they are thirsty, give them water to drink. Catholic Public Domain Version If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink: |
He answered, “No! Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink, and let them go to their master.”
Then those who were mentioned by name got up and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them; they clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them; and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kindred at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.
He gives them security, and they are supported; his eyes are upon their ways.
Do not rejoice when your enemies fall, and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble,
Do not say, “I will do to others as they have done to me; I will pay them back for what they have done.”
Like vinegar on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart. Like a moth in clothing or a worm in wood, sorrow gnaws at the human heart.
But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Now I know that you shall surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.