1 Samuel 25:16
“They were a wall vnto vs both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping sheepe.”
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1 Samuel 25:16 Context
14¶ But one of the yong men told Abigail Nabals wife, saying, Behold, Dauid sent messengers out of the wildernesse to salute our master: and he railed on them. 15But the men were very good vnto vs, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing as long as wee were conuersant with them, when we were in the fields. 16They were a wall vnto vs both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping sheepe. 17Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt doe: for euill is determined against our master, and against all his houshold: for he is such a sonne of Belial, that a man cannot speake to him. 18¶ Then Abigail made haste, and tooke two hundred loaues, and two bottles of wine, and fiue sheepe readie dressed, and fiue measures of parched corne, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figges, and laid them on asses.
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They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- King James Version
"They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- American Standard Version (1901)
But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.
- Basic English Bible
They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them feeding the sheep.
- Darby Bible
They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- Webster's Bible
They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- World English Bible
a wall they have been unto us both by night and by day, all the days of our being with them, feeding the flock.
- Youngs Literal Bible
they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible