King James Version
1 Samuel 25:12 in the King James Version says “So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 25 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.”
1 Samuel 25:12 · KJV
And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be? flesh: Heb. slaughter
So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. railed: Heb. flew upon them
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“turned”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
“young men”
H5288(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latit
“their way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“and went again”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“and told”
H5046properly, to front, i.e., stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“him all those sayings”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
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