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1 Samuel 25 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
24 and fell at his feet, & said: In me my Lord be this iniquity: let thy handmaid speak I beseech thee in thine ears: and hear the words of thy servant.
25 Let not my lord the king I pray thee, set his heart upon this naughty man Nabal: because according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid saw not thy servants my lord, whom thou didst send.
26 Now therefore my lord, our Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath stayed thee that thou shouldst not come unto blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now be thine enemies as Nabal, & they that seek evil to my lord.
27 Wherefore receive this benediction, which thy handmaid hath brought to thee my lord: and give to thy servants that follow thee my lord.
28 Take away the iniquity of thy handmaid: for our Lord making will make to my lord a faithful house, because thou my lord dost fight the battles of our Lord: let not malice therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life.
29 For if a man shall rise, persecuting thee, & seeking thy life, the life of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with our Lord thy God: Moreover the life of thine enemies shall be whurled, as in the violence, and whurl of a sling.
30 When our Lord therefore shall do to thee, my lord, all good things, which he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall constitute thee Prince over Israel,
31 this shall not be an occasion of sobbing to thee, and a scruple of heart to my Lord, that thou hast shed innocent blood, or thy self hast revenged thy self: and when our Lord hath bestowed these benefits upon my lord, thou shalt remember thy handmaid.
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