1 Samuel 25:11
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Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”
Read 1 Samuel 25:11 Using Other Translations
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?"
Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I’ve slaughtered for my shearers and give it to a band of outlaws who come from who knows where?”
What does 1 Samuel 25:11 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
1 Samuel 25:11
Shall I then take my bread, and my water
Which include all food and liquors, everything eatable and
drinkable; and "water" may be particularly mentioned, because
very scarce in the wilderness, and so precious; though the
Septuagint version has "wine" instead of "water":
and my flesh which I have killed for my
shearers;
whether oxen, or sheep, or lambs, as there might be of each sort,
for an entertainment made on such an occasion:
and give [it] unto men whom I know not whence they
[be]?
which is another argument Abarbinel makes use of that he meant
not David, but his men only, because he did not know who and from
whence they were.
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