1 Samuel 25:34

La Bible David Martin

Car certainement l'Eternel le Dieu d'Israël qui m'a empêché de te faire du mal, est vivant, que si tu ne te fusses hâtée, et ne fusses venue au devant de moi, il ne fût rien demeuré de reste à Nabal d'ici au matin, soit homme soit bête.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Mais certainement, comme l'Éternel, le Dieu d'Israël, qui m'a empêché de te faire du mal, est vivant, si tu ne te fusses hâtée de venir au-devant de moi, il ne serait pas demeuré de reste à Nabal, d'ici à demain matin, même un seul homme.

Darby's French Translation
Mais l'Éternel, le Dieu d'Israël, qui m'a empêché de te faire du tort, est vivant, que si tu ne te fusses hâtée et ne fusses venue à ma rencontre, il ne fût pas resté à Nabal un seul homme jusqu'à la lumière du matin.

Louis Segond (1910)
Mais l'Eternel, le Dieu d'Israël, qui m'a empêché de te faire du mal, est vivant! si tu ne t'étais hâtée de venir au-devant de moi, il ne serait resté qui que ce soit à Nabal, d'ici à la lumière du matin.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

kept me back: 1 Samuel 25:26

hasted: 1 Samuel 25:18, 1 Samuel 11:11, Joshua 10:6, Joshua 10:9

there had: 1 Samuel 25:22

Reciprocal: Genesis 20:6 - withheld 1 Samuel 25:37 - had told him 1 Samuel 25:39 - kept his servant 1 Kings 14:10 - him that pisseth 1 Kings 16:11 - he left him 1 Kings 21:21 - him that pisseth Job 27:2 - God liveth 1 Corinthians 13:4 - vaunteth not itself

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For in very deed, [as] the Lord God of Israel liveth,.... An oath for the confirmation of what he was about to say:

which hath kept me back from hurting thee: from doing any ill to her family, as he intended, though not to her person, his resolution being only to slay the males; but that would have been an hurt, an evil, an affliction to Abigail, from which the Lord in his providence restrained him, and that through her good advice:

except thou hadst hasted, and come to meet me: if she had not made quick dispatch in preparing her present, or had stayed to persuade her husband into her measures; if she had delayed a little longer, David would have been at Nabal's house, executing his vengeance on him and his:

surely there had not been left unto Nabal, by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall: :-.