1 Samuel 25:23-35
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When Abigail saw David, she hurried u and got down from the donkey v and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground.
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She fell at his feet and said, w "On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.
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Let not my lord regard q this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
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Now then, my lord, x as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because y the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from z saving with your own hand, now then a let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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And now let this b present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.
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Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make my lord c a sure house, because my lord d is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.
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If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies e he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
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And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince over Israel,
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my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord z taking vengeance himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant."
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And David said to Abigail, f "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!
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Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, y who have kept me this day from bloodguilt z and from avenging myself with my own hand!
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For as surely g as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, y who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male."
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Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, h "Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition."
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Joshua 15:18
When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?
Judges 1:14
When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?
Genesis 24:64
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel
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1 Samuel 25:41
And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
Ruth 2:10
Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?
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2 Samuel 14:9
And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.
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1 Samuel 25:17
Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.
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1 Samuel 20:3
But David vowed again, saying, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
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Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
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Romans 12:19
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.
Hebrews 10:30
For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people.
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2 Samuel 18:32
The king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" And the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you for evil be like that young man.
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1 Samuel 30:26
When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord.
Genesis 33:11
Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus he urged him, and he took it.
2 Kings 5:15
Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.
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1 Kings 11:38
And if you will listen to all that I command yo...
1 Samuel 2:35
And I will raise up for myself a faithful pries...
2 Samuel 7:11
From the time that I appointed judges over my p...
2 Samuel 7:27
For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ha...
1 Kings 9:5
Then I will establish your royal throne over Is...
1 Chronicles 17:10
From the time that I appointed judges over my p...
1 Chronicles 17:25
For you, my God, have revealed to your servant ...
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1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord 's battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
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Jeremiah 10:18
For thus says the Lord : "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it.
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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Genesis 24:27
And said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen.
Psalms 41:13
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
Psalms 72:18
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.
Luke 1:68
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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1 Samuel 1:17
Then Eli answered, "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.
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