| 1 Samuel 25:4 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | While David was in the desert, he heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. |
| ASV: | And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. |
| BBE: | And David had word in the waste land that Nabal was cutting the wool of his sheep. |
| DBY: | And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. |
| ERV: | And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. |
| JPS: | And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. |
| WBS: | And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. |
| WEB: | David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. |
| YLT: | And David heareth in the wilderness that Nabal is shearing his flock, |
| 1 Samuel 25:4 Cross References |
| XREF: | 1 Samuel 25:3 (now the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail. And the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and 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, visit Nabal and greet him in my name; (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 25:4 Shear sheep - Which times were celebrated with feasting. |
| MHC: | 25:2-11 We should not have heard of Nabal, if nothing had passed between him and David. Observe his name, Nabal, A fool; so it signifies. Riches make men look great in the eye of the world; but to one that takes right views, Nabal looked very mean. He had no honour or honesty; he was churlish, cross, and ill-humoured; evil in his doings, hard and oppressive; a man that cared not what fraud and violence he used in getting and saving. What little reason have we to value the wealth of this world, when so great a churl as Nabal abounds, and so good a man as David suffers want!, David pleaded the kindness Nabal's shepherds had received. Considering that David's men were in distress and debt, and discontented, and the scarcity of provisions, it was by good management that they were kept from plundering. Nabal went into a passion, as covetous men are apt to do, when asked for any thing, thinking thus to cover one sin with another; and, by abusing the poor, to excuse themselves from relieving them. But God will not thus be mocked. Let this help us to bear reproaches and misrepresentations with patience and cheerfulness, and make us easy under them; it has often been the lot of the excellent ones of the earth. Nabal insists much on the property he had in the provisions of his table. May he not do what he will with his own? We mistake, if we think we are absolute lords of what we have, and may do what we please with it. No; we are but stewards, and must use it as we are directed, remembering it is not our own, but His who intrusted us with it. |
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