NETBible KJV GRK-HEB XRef Arts Hymns
  Discovery Box

1 Samuel 25:8-11

Context
25:8 Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come 1  at the time of a holiday. Please provide us – your servants 2  and your son David – with whatever you can spare.” 3 

25:9 So David’s servants went and spoke all these words to Nabal in David’s name. Then they paused. 25:10 But Nabal responded to David’s servants, “Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters! 25:11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”

1 tc The translation follows many medieval Hebrew mss in reading בָּאנוּ (banu, “we have come”) rather than the MT’s בָּנוּ (banu, “we have built”).

2 tn This refers to the ten servants sent by David.

3 tn Heb “whatever your hand will find.”



TIP #09: Tell your friends ... become a ministry partner ... use the NET Bible on your site. [ALL]
created in 0.09 seconds
powered by bible.org