1 Samuel 25:34

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Men så sant Herren, Israels Gud, lever, han som har holdt mig tilbake fra å gjøre dig ondt: Hadde du ikke skyndt dig å komme mig i møte, da skulde ikke en eneste mann være blitt tilbake for Nabal til imorgen.

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: :-.