1 Samuel 25:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ they were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ They were a wall to us night and day, all the time we were with them keeping the sheep.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ In fact, the whole time we were with them, watching our sheep, they were a protective wall around us both night and day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ They were a wall to us, as much in the night as in the day, during all the days that we were with them, pasturing the sheep.

1 Samuel 25:16 Cross References

Job 1:10

Have you not put a fence around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Exodus 14:22

The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

Zechariah 2:5

For I will be a wall of fire all around it, says the Lord, and I will be the glory within it.”

Jeremiah 15:20

And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, says the Lord.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now, therefore, know this and consider what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his house; he is so ill-natured that no one can speak to him.”