Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Samuel 25:16
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They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
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They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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1 Samuel 25
14 Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed at them.
15 Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.
16 They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
17 Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
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