Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

But Nabal answered David's servants and said, "Who [is] David? And who [is] the son of Jesse? Today, [there] are many servants breaking away from the presence of their masters.

New American Standard Bible

But Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is Jesse’s son? Many slaves these days are running away from their masters.

International Standard Version

Nabal answered David's servants: "Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are breaking away from their masters.

A Conservative Version

And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

But Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today, each of whom is breaking away from his master.

Bible in Basic English

And Nabal gave them his answer and said, Who is David? who is the son of Jesse? there are a number of servants in these days running away from their masters.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And Nabal will answer David's servants, and say, Who is David? and who the son of Jesse? this day there were many servants breaking away a man from the face of his lord.

King James 2000

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

Modern King James verseion

And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? The servants who have broken away, each man from his master, have multiplied.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And Nabal answered David's servants and said, "What is David? And what is the son of Jesse? There is plenty of servants nowadays, that break away every man from his master.

NET Bible

But Nabal responded to David's servants, "Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters!

New Heart English Bible

Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

The Emphasized Bible

Then Nabal answered the servants of David, and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Nowadays, many are the servants that have broken away, every one from the presence of his lord:

Webster

And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants in these days that break away every man from his master.

World English Bible

Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

Youngs Literal Translation

And Nabal answereth the servants of David and saith, 'Who is David, and who the son of Jesse? to-day have servants been multiplied who are breaking away each from his master;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And Nabal
נבל 
Nabal 
Usage: 22

ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 329

דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

עבד 
`ebed 
עבד 
`ebed 
Usage: 800
Usage: 800

and said

Usage: 0

Who is David
דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

and who is the son

Usage: 0

of Jesse
אישׁי ישׁי 
Yishay 
Usage: 42

now a days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

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Context Readings

David And Abigail

9 So David's young men came and they spoke all these words to Nabal in the name of David. Then they waited. 10 But Nabal answered David's servants and said, "Who [is] David? And who [is] the son of Jesse? Today, [there] are many servants breaking away from the presence of their masters. 11 Should I take my bread and my water and my meat which I have slaughtered for my shearers and give [it] to men whom I do not know where they [are] from?


Cross References

Judges 9:28

Then Gaal son of Ebed said, "Who [is] Abimelech, and who [are we of] Shechem that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and [is not] Zebul his chief officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem. Why should we serve him?

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh that I should listen to his voice to release Israel? I do not know Yahweh, and also I will not release Israel."

1 Samuel 20:30

Then {Saul became angry} at Jonathan and said to him, "[You] son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

1 Samuel 22:2

Every man in distress and every man who had a creditor and every embittered man gathered to him, and he became {their commander}. Now there [were] about four hundred men with him.

1 Samuel 22:7-8

Then Saul said to the servants who [were] standing around him, "Please listen, {Benjaminites}! Will the son of Jesse give you all fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?

2 Samuel 20:1

Now a man of wickedness was found there whose name [was] Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. He blew the horn and said, "There is no share for us in David, and there [is] no inheritance for us in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel!"

1 Kings 12:16

When all of Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "{What share do we have in David}? [There is] no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now look to your house, David!" Then Israel went to their tents.

Psalm 73:7-8

Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow [their] heart.

Psalm 123:3-4

Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us, for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.

Ecclesiastes 7:10

Do not say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For [it is] not from wisdom [that] you ask this.

Isaiah 32:5

A fool will no longer be called noble, and a scoundrel will not be said [to be] eminent.

Isaiah 32:7

And a scoundrel, his weapons [are] evil; he plans evil devices to ruin [the] poor with words of deception even when the speech of [the] needy [is] right.

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