1 Samuel 25:16

La Bible David Martin

Ils nous ont servi de muraille nuit et jour, tout le temps que nous avons été avec eux, paissant les troupeaux.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Ils nous ont servi de muraille, et la nuit et le jour, tout le temps que nous avons été avec eux, paissant les troupeaux.

Darby's French Translation
Ils ont été une muraille pour nous, de nuit et de jour, tout le temps que nous avons été avec eux, faisant paître le menu bétail.

Louis Segond (1910)
Ils nous ont nuit et jour servi de muraille, tout le temps que nous avons été avec eux, faisant paître les troupeaux.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a wall: Exodus 14:22, Job 1:10, Jeremiah 15:20, Zechariah 2:5

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 22:2 - a captain 1 Samuel 25:7 - we hurt Psalms 38:20 - render

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They were a wall unto us both by night and day,.... Protecting and defending them against the Philistines, who, as they robbed the threshing floors of Keilah, would have plundered the flocks of Nabal; or it may be rather against the incursions of the Arabs in the wilderness of Paran, the posterity of Ishmael, who lived by plunder, and against the wild beasts of the desert, who otherwise would have carried off many of their sheep and lambs, by night or by day:

all the while we were with them keeping the sheep; all which showed how reasonable it was that Nabal should have used them well, and given them a portion of his entertainment at his sheep shearing; for had it not been for them, he would not have had so many sheep to shear as he had.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A wall - To protect them from the attacks of the Bedouins, etc. They had been as safe with David’s men around them as if they had been dwelling in a walled town.