1 Samuel 25:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Shall I take my bread and my water and the meat that I have butchered for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Shall I then take my bread and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men when I do not know where they belong?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men of whom I know not whence they are?

Common English Bible

¹¹ Why should I take my bread, my water, and the meat I’ve butchered for my shearers and give it to people who came here from who knows where?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Therefore, shall I take my bread, and my water, and the meat of the cattle that I have slain for my shearers, and give it to men, when I do not know where they are from?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and the flesh of my cattle, which I have killed for my shearers, and give to men whom I know not whence they are?

1 Samuel 25:11 Cross References

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone and the orphan has not eaten from it—

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown and yet are well known, as dying and look—we are alive, as punished and yet not killed,

Galatians 6:10

So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all and especially for those of the family of faith.

Deuteronomy 8:17

Do not say to yourself, ‘My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.’

1 Peter 4:9

Be hospitable to one another without complaining.

Judges 8:15

Then he came to the people of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Do you already have in your possession the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna, that we should give bread to your troops who are exhausted?’ ”

Judges 8:6

But the officials of Succoth said, “Do you already have in your possession the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna, that we should give bread to your army?”

Judges 8:8

From there he went up to Penuel and made the same request of them, and the people of Penuel answered him as the people of Succoth had answered.

1 Samuel 24:13

As the ancient proverb says, ‘Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness,’ but my hand shall not be against you.

1 Samuel 25:12

So David’s young men turned away and came back and told him all this.

1 Samuel 25:3

Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail. The woman was clever and beautiful, but the man was surly and mean; he was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 25:7

I hear that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.