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1 Samuel 25:8

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Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.’ ”

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1 Samuel 25:8 in other translations

Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee: wherefore let the young men find favor in thine eyes; for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thy hand, unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

1 Samuel 25:8 · American Standard Version

1 Samuel 25:8 in context

  1. 6Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!
  2. 7Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel.
  3. 8Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.’ ”
  4. 9When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.
  5. 10Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.