1 Samuel 25:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

Common English Bible

⁴ While in the wilderness, David heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Therefore, when David, in the desert, had heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And when David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

1 Samuel 25:4 Cross References

Genesis 38:13

When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

2 Samuel 13:23

After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

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 25:5

So David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.