Shall I then take my bread, and my water,.... Which include all food and liquors, everything eatable and drinkable; and "water" may be particularly mentioned, because very scarce in the wilderness, and so precious; though the Septuagint version has "wine" instead of "water":and my flesh which I have killed for my shearers; whether oxen, or sheep, or lambs, as there might be of each sort, for an entertainment made on such an occasion:and give [it] unto men whom I know not whence they [be]?
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1 Samuel 25:11
1 Samuel 25:11
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give it: Ecclesiastes 11:1-2; Galatians 6:10
whom: 1 Samuel 25:14-15; John…