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1 Samuel 25:19
1 Samuel 25:19 is verse 19 of 1 Samuel chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
King James Version
And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
World English Bible
She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.
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1 Samuel 25:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible
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
19 and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
20 As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.
21 Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 32:16He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”
Genesis 32:20You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
Proverbs 31:11The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he lacks nothing of value.
Proverbs 31:12She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
Proverbs 31:27She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.