1 Samuel 25:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

My water; he speaketh thus, either because in those hot and dry parts water was scarce and precious; or water is here put for any kind of drink, as bread is oft taken for all sorts of meat.

1 Samuel 25:11

11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my fleshe that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?