16They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.


In Context

13 Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his sword. And they girded on every man his sword. And David also girded on his sword: and there followed David about four hundred men: and two hundred remained with the baggage.

14 But one of the servants told Abigail the wife of Nabal, saying: Behold David sent messengers out of the wilderness, to salute our master: and he rejected them.

15 These men were very good to us, and gave us no trouble: neither did we ever lose any thing all the time that we conversed with them in the desert.

16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

17 Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.

18 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses:

1 Samuel 25:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

25:16Night and day they were a wall around us all the time we were herding our sheep near them.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:16They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:16they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:16They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them feeding the sheep.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:16they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:16They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:16They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:16a wall they have been unto us both by night and by day, all the days of our being with them, feeding the flock.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:16They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.