1 Samuel 25:16

14 Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.

15 Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.

They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

17 Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”

18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys

Her forteller Bibelen en historie om noen andre. Spør deg selv hva den kan si oss i dag. Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.

Sammenlign

ÅB
De var som en mur omkring oss både natt og dag i all den tid vi var sammen med dem og gjætte småfeet.
OTB
De beskyttet oss både natt og dag, hele tiden vi var med dem og gjette sauene.
B1930
De var som en mur omkring oss både natt og dag i all den tid vi var sammen med dem og gjætte småfeet.
BSB
They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
KJV
They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
WEB
They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
ASV
they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
DARBY
They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them feeding the sheep.
BLB
They were a wall for us, both by night and by day, all the days we were with them pasturing the sheep.

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  • Job 1:10

    Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

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  • Exodus 14:22

    and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

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  • Zechariah 2:5

    For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”

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  • Jeremiah 15:20

    Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.

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