the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Hebrew Modern Translation
שמואל א 25:34
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ואולם חי יהוה אלהי ישראל אשר מנעני מהרע אתך כי לולי מהרת ותבאתי (ותבאת) לקראתי כי אם נותר לנבל עד אור הבקר משתין בקיר
וְאוּלָ֗ם חַי־יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר מְנָעַ֔נִי מֵהָרַ֖ע אֹתָ֑ךְ כִּ֣י ׀ לוּלֵ֣י מִהַ֗רְתְּ *וַתָּבֹאתִי **וַתָּבֹאת֙ לִקְרָאתִ֔י כִּ֣י אִם־נוֹתַ֧ר לְנָבָ֛ל עַד־אֹ֥ור הַבֹּ֖קֶר מַשְׁתִּ֥ין בְּקִֽיר ׃
וְאוּלָם חַי־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֲשֶׁר מְנָעַנִי מֵהָרַע אֹתָךְ כִּי ׀ לוּלֵי מִהַרְתְּ וַתָּבֹאתוַתָּבֹאתִי| לִקְרָאתִי כִּי אִם־נוֹתַר לְנָבָל עַד־אוֹר הַבֹּקֶר מַשְׁתִּין בְּקִֽיר ׃
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: :-.