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1 Samuel 25:11

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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?

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  1. 1 Samuel 25:9

    And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

  2. 1 Samuel 25:10

    And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

  3. 1 Samuel 25:12

    So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.

  4. 1 Samuel 25:13

    And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

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