1 Samuel 25:11

New International Version

Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”

Cross References

Job 31:17

if I have kept my bread to myself, not sharing it with the fatherless—

2 Corinthians 6:9

known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed;

Galatians 6:10

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

Deuteronomy 8:17

You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.”

1 Peter 4:9

Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.

Judges 8:15

Then Gideon came and said to the men of Sukkoth, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, ‘Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?’ ”

Judges 8:6

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

Judges 8:8

From there he went up to Peniel and made the same request of them, but they answered as the men of Sukkoth had.

1 Samuel 24:13

As the old saying goes, ‘From evildoers come evil deeds,’ so my hand will not touch you.

1 Samuel 25:12

David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word.

1 Samuel 25:3

His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 25:7

“ ‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing.