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1 Samuel 17:18

16 For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening to take his stand.

17 One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.

Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.

19 They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.”

20 So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.
KJV
And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
WEB
and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand; and see how your brothers are doing, and bring back news.”
ASV
and bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
DARBY
and carry these ten cheeses to the captain of the thousand, and visit thy brethren to see how they are, and take a pledge of them.
BLB
And these ten cuttings of the cheese carry to the captain of the thousand, and your brothers inspect for welfare, and bring back their pledge.”
ÅB
Men disse ti skiver fersk ost skal du ha med til den øverste høvedsmann; så skal du se til dine brødre om det går dem vel, og ta med et pant fra dem.
OTB
Ta også med disse ti ostene til lederen for deres tusen, og sjekk hvordan dine brødre har det, og bring tilbake nyheter om dem."
B1930
Men disse ti skiver fersk ost skal du ha med til den øverste høvedsmann; så skal du se til dine brødre om det går dem vel, og ta med et pant fra dem.

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  • Genesis 37:14

    Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,

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  • 1 Samuel 16:20

    And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them to Saul with his son David.

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  • 1 Thessalonians 3:5–6

    For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.

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  • Acts 15:36

    Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

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  • 2 Samuel 17:29

    honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and his people to eat. For they said, “The people have become hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the wilderness.”

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  • Job 10:10

    Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

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