For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”
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For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”
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For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
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For in very deed, as the LORD, the God of Israel, liveth, who hath withholden me from hurting thee, except thou hadst made haste and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light so much as one male.'
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to 1 Samuel 25:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joshua 10:6 The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, “Don’t abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us.”
- Joshua 10:9 Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.
- 1 Samuel 11:11 On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
- 1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
- 1 Samuel 25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He attributeth it to the Lord’s mercy, and not…
He attributeth it to the Lord’s mercy, and not to himself that he was stayed.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 25:34 For in very deed, [as] the LORD…
1Sa 25:34 For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
Ver. 34. Which hath kept me back from hurting thee.] The females also therefore had perished, and not the males only, as some have gathered from that proverbial expression, any that pisseth against the wall.
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Except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me.] That was a worthy saying of Alphonsus, king of Arragon, a valiant and wise warrior, Decet ducem invictum, habere animum, si res sit iusta; at ubi conatus est iniustus, praestat regredi quam progredi. A general in a good cause should be unalterable, unvanquishable; but if he and it to be otherwise, he had better stop or step backward, than to go on further with it.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Hath kept me back from hurting thee; not that…
Hath kept me back from hurting thee; not that he intended to kill her, but the males only; as was noted in 1Sa 25:22. But their destruction was a dreadful affliction and damage to her.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For in very deed, as the Lord God of…
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:
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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: See Gill on Sa1 25:22.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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David accepts Abigail's gifts and agrees to do as she has advised him.
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there would certainly have not been left to Nabal so much as one male baby
This can be translated in active form. AT: "I would not have left to Nabal even one male baby" (See: Active or Passive)
received from her hand
This is an idiom. Abigail did not unload all gifts from the donkeys herself. AT: "accepted all the gifts that she had brought" (See: Idiom)
have listened to your voice
The word "voice" is a metonym for the message the person speaks and a synecdoche for the person who speaks. AT: "have listened to what you have told me" or "will do as you have advised me" (See: Metonymy and Synecdoche)
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true
Yahweh
God
Israel
David
receive
peace
house
voice
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