1 Samuel 25:16 “They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were…”

1 Samuel 25:16

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

World English Bible

They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

American Standard Version

they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

Geneva Bible 1599

They were as a wall vnto vs both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping sheepe.

Darby Translation

They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them feeding the sheep.

Young's Literal Translation

a wall they have been unto us both by night and by day, all the days of our being with them, feeding the flock.

Bible in Basic English

But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.

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Cross references

“a wall”

Job 1:10 Exodus 14:22 Zechariah 2:5 Jeremiah 15:20

Job 1:10 · BSB

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.

Exodus 14:22 · BSB

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

Zechariah 2:5 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 15:20 · BSB

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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15Yet 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.

17Now 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!”

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