1 Samuel 25:5 Parallel Translations

So David sent ten young men and told them, "Go to Carmel, visit Nabal, and greet him for me.(GOD'S WORD®)

And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:

ASV:

And David sent ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:

BBE:

And David sent ten young men, and said to them, Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal, and say kind words to him in my name;

DBY:

Then David sent out ten young men; and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

ERV:

And David sent ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:

JPS:

And David sent ten young men, and David said unto the young men: 'Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name;

WBS:

And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:

WEB:

David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

YLT:

and David sendeth ten young men, and David saith to the young men, 'Go ye up to Carmel, and ye have come in unto Nabal, and asked of him in my name of welfare,

1 Samuel 25:5 Cross References

XREF:

1 Samuel 25:4 that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

1 Samuel 25:6 and thus you shall say, 'Have a long life, peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

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.

CONC:

Carmel David Greet Kind Nabal Ten Visit Welfare

Carmel David Kind Nabal Ten Visit Welfare Words Young

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