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1 Samuel 25:17-19
Lexham English Bible
1 Samuel 25:17-19
Lexham English Bible
17 And so then, know and consider[a] what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his household, and he is such a wicked man,[b] nobody can reason with him!”[c]
18 Then Abigail quickly took[d] two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put them on the donkeys. 19 Then she said to her servants, “Go ahead before me; look, I am coming after you,” but she did not tell her husband Nabal.
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- 1 Samuel 25:17 Literally “see”
- 1 Samuel 25:17 Literally “a son of uselessness”
- 1 Samuel 25:17 Literally “from speaking to him”
- 1 Samuel 25:18 Literally “hastened and took”
1 Samuel 25:17-19
New International Version
1 Samuel 25:17-19
New International Version
17 Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked(A) man that no one can talk to him.”
18 Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs[a] of roasted grain,(B) a hundred cakes of raisins(C) and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.(D) 19 Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead;(E) I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell(F) her husband Nabal.
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 25:18 That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms
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