1 Samuel 25:27

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Now, therefore, this blessing which thy maid-servant hath brought to my lord, let it even be given unto the young men who are going to and fro at the feet of my lord.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

Hebrew Names Version
Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

King James Version
And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

Lexham English Bible
So then, this gift which your female servant has brought to my lord, may it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

English Standard Version
And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

New Century Version
I have brought a gift to you for the men who follow you.

New English Translation
Now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow my lord.

Amplified Bible
"Now this gift, which your maidservant has brought my lord, let it be given to the young men who accompany and follow my lord.

New American Standard Bible
"And now let this gift which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who accompany my lord.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And now, this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought vnto my lorde, let it be giuen vnto the yong men, that followe my lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
So now let this gift which your servant-woman has brought to my lord be given to the young men who went about with my lord.

Complete Jewish Bible
Meanwhile, let this present which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the men in my lord's service.

Darby Translation
And now this blessing which thy bondmaid has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men that follow my lord.

Easy-to-Read Version
Now, I am bringing this gift to you. Please give these things to your men.

George Lamsa Translation
And now this present which your handmaid has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men that follow my lord.

Good News Translation
Please, sir, accept this present I have brought you, and give it to your men.

Literal Translation
And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought to my lord, even let it be given to the young men who go after my lord.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Here is ye blessynge, yt thy handmayde hath brought my lorde, take it, and geue it vnto the yonge men, that walke vnder my lorde.

American Standard Version
And now this present which thy servant hath brought unto my lord, let it be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

Bible in Basic English
And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And now this blessing which thyne handmayd hath brought vnto my lord, let it be geuen vnto the young men that folowe my lorde.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now this present which thy servant hath brought unto my lord, let it be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

King James Version (1611)
And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought vnto my lord, let it euen be giuen vnto the yong men that follow my lord.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now accept this token of goodwill, which thy servant has brought to my lord, and thou shalt give it to the servants that wait on my lord.

English Revised Version
And now this present which thy servant hath brought unto my lord, let it be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

Berean Standard Bible
Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wherfor resseyue thou this blessyng, which thin handmaide brouyte to thee, my lord, and yyue thou to the children that suen thee, my lord.

Young's Literal Translation
`And, now, this blessing which thy maid-servant hath brought to my lord -- it hath been given to the young men who are going up and down at the feet of my lord.

Update Bible Version
And now this present which your slave has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men that follow my lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now this blessing which thy handmaid hath brought to my lord, let it even be given to the young men that follow my lord.

World English Bible
Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

New King James Version
And now this present which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

New Living Translation
And here is a present that I, your servant, have brought to you and your young men.

New Life Bible
Now let this gift which your woman servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

New Revised Standard
And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore receive this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought to thee, my lord: and give it to the young men that follow thee, my lord.

Revised Standard Version
And now let this present which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

THE MESSAGE
To Fight God's Battles Samuel died. The whole country came to his funeral. Everyone grieved over his death, and he was buried in his hometown of Ramah. Meanwhile, David moved again, this time to the wilderness of Maon. There was a certain man in Maon who carried on his business in the region of Carmel. He was very prosperous—three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, and it was sheep-shearing time in Carmel. The man's name was Nabal (Fool), a Calebite, and his wife's name was Abigail. The woman was intelligent and good-looking, the man brutish and mean. David, out in the backcountry, heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep and sent ten of his young men off with these instructions: "Go to Carmel and approach Nabal. Greet him in my name, ‘Peace! Life and peace to you. Peace to your household, peace to everyone here! I heard that it's sheep-shearing time. Here's the point: When your shepherds were camped near us we didn't take advantage of them. They didn't lose a thing all the time they were with us in Carmel. Ask your young men—they'll tell you. What I'm asking is that you be generous with my men—share the feast! Give whatever your heart tells you to your servants and to me, David your son.'" David's young men went and delivered his message word for word to Nabal. Nabal tore into them, "Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? The country is full of runaway servants these days. Do you think I'm going to take good bread and wine and meat freshly butchered for my sheepshearers and give it to men I've never laid eyes on? Who knows where they've come from?" David's men got out of there and went back and told David what he had said. David said, "Strap on your swords!" They all strapped on their swords, David and his men, and set out, four hundred of them. Two hundred stayed behind to guard the camp. Meanwhile, one of the young shepherds told Abigail, Nabal's wife, what had happened: "David sent messengers from the backcountry to salute our master, but he tore into them with insults. Yet these men treated us very well. They took nothing from us and didn't take advantage of us all the time we were in the fields. They formed a wall around us, protecting us day and night all the time we were out tending the sheep. Do something quickly because big trouble is ahead for our master and all of us. Nobody can talk to him. He's impossible—a real brute!" Abigail flew into action. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep dressed out and ready for cooking, a bushel of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she had it all loaded on some donkeys. Then she said to her young servants, "Go ahead and pave the way for me. I'm right behind you." But she said nothing to her husband Nabal. As she was riding her donkey, descending into a ravine, David and his men were descending from the other end, so they met there on the road. David had just said, "That sure was a waste, guarding everything this man had out in the wild so that nothing he had was lost—and now he rewards me with insults. A real slap in the face! May God do his worst to me if Nabal and every cur in his misbegotten brood aren't dead meat by morning!" As soon as Abigail saw David, she got off her donkey and fell on her knees at his feet, her face to the ground in homage, saying, "My master, let me take the blame! Let me speak to you. Listen to what I have to say. Don't dwell on what that brute Nabal did. He acts out the meaning of his name: Nabal, Fool. Foolishness oozes from him. "I wasn't there when the young men my master sent arrived. I didn't see them. And now, my master, as God lives and as you live, God has kept you from this avenging murder—and may your enemies, all who seek my master's harm, end up like Nabal! Now take this gift that I, your servant girl, have brought to my master, and give it to the young men who follow in the steps of my master.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now let this gift which your maidservant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who accompany my lord.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Then Abigail hastened - and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep made ready, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred cakes of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, - and put them on the asses. ¹⁹ And she said to her young men - Pass on before me, behold me coming after you; but, to her husband, Nabal, told she nothing. ²⁰ And so it was, as she was riding on her ass, and descending within the covert of the hill, lo! David and his men, descending over against her, - so she met them. ²¹ Now, David, had said - Surely, in vain, did I guard all that pertained to this man in the wilderness, so that there was, nothing, missed of all that he had, - seeing he hath returned to me evil for good. ²² So may God do to David and so may he add, if I leave remaining, of all that he hath, until the morning, - so much as a little boy. ²³ And, when Abigail saw David, she hastened, and alighted from off her ass, - and fell down before David upon her face, and prostrated herself on the ground; ²⁴ yea she fell at his feet, and said - On me, even me, my lord, be the transgression, - But, I pray thee, let thy handmaid speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid. ²⁵ Let it not be, I pray thee, that my lord regard this abandoned man - Nabal; For, as his name is, so, is he. Nabal, is his name, and, baseness, is with him, - But, I, thy handmaid, saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. ²⁶ Now, therefore, my lord - By the life of Yahweh, and by the life of thine own soul, - seeing Yahweh hath withholden thee from coming in with bloodshed, and from saving thyself, with thine own hand, now, therefore, like Nabal, be thine enemies, and they who are making search for my lord, wrongfully. ²⁷ Now, therefore, this blessing which thy maid-servant hath brought to my lord, let it even be given unto the young men who are going to and fro at the feet of my lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

blessing: or, present, 1 Samuel 30:26, Genesis 33:11, 2 Kings 5:15, 2 Corinthians 9:5

follow: Heb. walk at the feet of, 1 Samuel 25:42, *marg. Judges 4:10, 2 Samuel 16:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:13 - a present Genesis 43:11 - carry down Joshua 15:19 - a blessing Judges 1:15 - a blessing 2 Samuel 15:16 - after him Proverbs 18:16 - General Proverbs 31:12 - General Isaiah 36:16 - Make an agreement with me by a present

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
These, are the generations of Noah, Noah, was, a righteous man blameless, in his generations, - with God, did Noah walk.

Genesis 10:9
he, became a hero of hunting before Yahweh, for this cause, it is said. Like Nimrod, a hero of hunting before Yahweh.

Genesis 21:20
And it came to pass that God was with the boy, and he grew, - and dwelt in the desert, and he became as he grew up, an archer,

Genesis 25:3
And, Yokshan, begat Sheba and Dedan, - and, the sons of Dedan, were Asshurim and Letushim, and Leummim.

Genesis 25:5
And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac;

Genesis 25:10
the field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth, - there, was buried Abraham, with Sarah his wife.

Genesis 25:11
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son, - and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.

Genesis 27:40
And on thy sword, shalt thou live, And thy brother, shalt thou serve: But it shall come to pass when thou shalt rove at large, Then shalt thou break his yoke from off thy neck.

Genesis 46:34
Then shall ye say - Men of cattle, have thy servants been from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers, - To the end ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for an abomination to Egyptians, is every feeder of a flock,

Job 1:1
A man, there was - in the land of Uz, Job, his name, - and that man was blameless and upright, and one who revered God, and avoided evil.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now this blessing, which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord,.... The present, consisting of the things mentioned in

1 Samuel 25:18; which came as a blessing from God, and with good will from her:

let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord; the servants of David: in the original it is, "that walk at the feet of my lord": and which the Targum paraphrases, "who minister before my lord"; and so Abigail's damsels are called "pedissequae", or "that walked at her feet", 1 Samuel 25:42; and with the Romans, in later times, servants were called a "pedibus" and "pedissequi" d. This also is very artfully said, as if the present was not good enough for David, and worthy of his acceptance; might be agreeable to his men, and of service to them.

d Vid. Pignorium de Servis, p. 140, 248, 293.