OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

1 Samuel 25:12

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So David’s young men turned on their way and went back, and came and told him all these words.

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1 Samuel 25:9–15

9

When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.

10

Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

11

Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?”

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So David’s young men turned on their way and went back, and came and told him all these words.

13

David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!”

Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

14

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master; and he insulted them.

15

But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.

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