But the men [were] very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
Ver. 15. And we were not hurt.] So strict was David's military discipline; so was afterwards Tamerlane's; a who punished with death that soldier of his that but took an apple, or a little milk, &c., from another, without permission.
a Turk. Hist., 216.