When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
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When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
So the young men of David came, and they spoke to Nabal according to all of these words in the name of David. Then they ceased.
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When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
When David’s young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.
When David’s young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.
And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
And when Dauids yong men came, they tolde Nabal all those wordes in the name of Dauid, and helde their peace.
And when David's servants came, they spoke to Nabal all these words in David's name: and then held their peace.
And the young men of David come in, and speak unto Nabal according to all these words, in the name of David -- and rest.
And the young men of David come in, and speak to Nabal according to all these words, in the name of David—and rest.
When David's young men arrived, they said all of this to Nabal on David's behalf and then waited.
So the young men of David came, and they spoke to Nabal according to all of these words in the name of David. Then they ceased.
And David's young men came, and spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.
And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal in the name of David, according to all these words, and ceased.
David's young men arrived, gave Nabal this message from David, and waited for his reply.
And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal, in David's name, and said nothing more.
And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is נָבָ֛ל Nabal H5037 — appearing just 22 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
נָבָ֛ל Nabal H5037 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 22 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ֙ נַעֲרֵ֣י דָוִ֔ד וַיְדַבְּר֧וּ אֶל נָבָ֛ל כְּכָל הַדְּבָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה בְּשֵׁ֣ם דָּוִ֑ד וַיָּנֽוּחוּ
When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἔρχομαι ὁ παιδάριον καί λαλέω ὁ λόγος οὗτος πρός ναβαλ κατά πᾶς ὁ ῥῆμα οὗτος ἐν ὁ ὄνομα δαυίδ καί ἀναπηδάω
So the servants come and speak these words to Nabal, according to all these words in the name of David.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וַאֲתוֹ עוּלֵימֵי דָוִד וּמַלִילוּ עִם נָבָל כְּכָל פִתְגָמַיָא הָאִלֵין בִּשְׁמָא דְדָוִד וּפְסָקוּ:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Nâbâl (“Nabal”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 25:9 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.