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La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

1 Samuele 25:34

Certo, come il Signore Iddio d’Israele, che mi ha impedito di farti alcun male, vive, se tu non ti fossi affrettata a venirmi incontro, non sarebbe restato in vita a Nabal, fra qui e domattina, allo schiarir del dì, pure un piccolo fanciullo.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Decision;   Fig;   Intercession;   Nabal;   Tact;   Wife;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Samuel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abigail;   Carmel;   Wife;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abigail;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Carmel;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Gift, Giving;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abigail ;   Carmel ;   Handmaid, Handmaiden;   Nabal ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Abigail;   Nabal;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abigail;   Male;   Man-Child;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abigail;  

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Poich certo, com vero che vive lEterno, il DIO dIsraele, che mi ha impedito di farti del male, se non ti fossi affrettata a venirmi incontro allo spuntar del giorno a Nabal non sarebbe rimasto un sol uomo".
Riveduta Bibbia
Poiché certo, com’è vero che vive l’Eterno, l’Iddio d’Israele, che m’ha impedito di farti del male, se tu non ti fossi affrettata a venirmi incontro, fra qui e lo spuntar del giorno a Nabal non sarebbe rimasto un sol uomo".

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: :-.


 
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