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1 Samuel 25:8

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25:8Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come10 at the time of a holiday. Please provide us—your servants11 and your son David—with whatever you can spare.”12

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  1. 10 The translation follows many medieval Hebrew in reading בָּאנוּ (ba’nu, “we have come”) rather than the ’s בָּנוּ (banu, “we have built”).
  2. 11 This refers to the ten servants sent by David.
  3. 12 Heb “whatever your hand will find.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.’ ”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.’ ”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have on hand to your servants and to your son David.’ ”

NLTNew Living Translation

Ask your own men, and they will tell you this is true. So would you be kind to us, since we have come at a time of celebration? Please share any provisions you might have on hand with us and with your friend David.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Ask your servants and they will tell you! Let the young men find favor in your eyes because we have come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have on hand for your servants and for your son David.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.