1 Samuel 25:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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 fatherless has not eaten of it

2 Corinthians 6:9

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed;

Galatians 6:10

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Deuteronomy 8:17

Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’

1 Peter 4:9

Practice hospitality ungrudgingly to one another.

Judges 8:15

And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are faint?’ ”

Judges 8:6

And the officials of Succoth said, “Are Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”

Judges 8:8

And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

1 Samuel 24:13

As the proverb of the ancients 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 Abigail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful, but the man was churlish and ill-behaved; 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.