1 Samuel 24:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

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  • 1 Sam 26:20 : 20 Then do not let my blood be drained out on the earth away from the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel has come out to take my life, like one going after birds in the mountains.
  • 1 Sam 17:43 : 43 And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come out to me with sticks? And the Philistine put curses on David by all his gods.
  • 2 Sam 9:8 : 8 And he went down on his face before the king, and said, What is your servant, for you to take note of a dead dog such as I am?
  • 2 Sam 16:9 : 9 Then Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said to the king, Is this dead dog to go on cursing my lord the king? let me go over and take off his head.
  • 1 Kgs 21:7 : 7 Then Jezebel, his wife, said, Are you now the ruler of Israel? Get up, take food, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite.
  • Judg 8:1-3 : 1 And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him. 2 And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting? 3 God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.
  • 2 Sam 3:8 : 8 And Abner was very angry at the words of Ish-bosheth, and he said, Am I a dog's head of Judah? I am this day doing all in my power for the cause of your father Saul and for his brothers and his friends, and have not given you up into the hands of David, and now you say I have done wrong with a woman.
  • 2 Sam 6:20 : 20 Then David came back to give a blessing to his family. And Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to him and said, How full of glory was the king of Israel today, who let himself be seen uncovered by his servant-girls like a foolish person uncovering himself without shame!

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  • 1 Sam 26:18-20
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    18 And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?

    19 Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

    20 Then do not let my blood be drained out on the earth away from the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel has come out to take my life, like one going after birds in the mountains.

  • 1 Sam 24:11-13
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    75%

    11 Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.

    12 And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.

    13 May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

  • 1 Sam 24:15
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    15 After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.

  • 1 Sam 24:18-19
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    18 And he said to David, You are right and I am wrong: for you have given me back good, but I have given you evil.

    19 And you have made clear to me how good you have been to me today: because, when the Lord gave me up into your hands, you did not put me to death.

  • 1 Kgs 21:19-20
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    69%

    19 Say to him, The Lord says, Have you put a man to death and taken his heritage? Then say to him, The Lord says, In the place where dogs have been drinking the blood of Naboth, there will your blood become the drink of dogs.

    20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Sam 16:9
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    9 Then Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said to the king, Is this dead dog to go on cursing my lord the king? let me go over and take off his head.

  • 2 Sam 9:8
    68%

    8 And he went down on his face before the king, and said, What is your servant, for you to take note of a dead dog such as I am?

  • Prov 30:31
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    31 The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.

  • Ps 68:23
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    23 So that your foot may be red with blood, and the tongues of your dogs with the same.

  • 2 Sam 17:12
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    12 Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.

  • 1 Sam 17:43
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    43 And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come out to me with sticks? And the Philistine put curses on David by all his gods.

  • Job 30:1
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    1 But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

  • Ps 22:16
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    16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

  • Ps 18:37
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    37 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

  • 2 Sam 22:38
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    38 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

  • 1 Sam 25:21
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    21 Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.

  • 1 Kgs 21:24
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    24 Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.

  • 2 Kgs 8:13
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    13 And Hazael said, How is it possible that your servant, who is only a dog, will do this great thing? And Elisha said, The Lord has made it clear to me that you will be king over Aram.

  • Job 13:25
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    25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

  • 1 Kgs 22:38
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    38 And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.

  • 1 Sam 23:23
    66%

    23 So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 30:8
    66%

    8 Then David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go after this band? will I be able to overtake them? And in answer he said, Go after them, for you will certainly overtake them, and get back everything.

  • 1 Sam 25:29-30
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    66%

    29 And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.

    30 And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    66%

    9 And after that David came out of the hollow rock, and crying after Saul said, My lord the king. And when Saul gave a look back, David went down on his face and gave him honour.

  • Isa 37:23
    65%

    23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 1:3
    65%

    3 And David said to him, Where have you come from? And he said, I have come in flight from the tents of Israel.

  • Job 14:3
    65%

    3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • Jer 2:25
    65%

    25 Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

  • 1 Kgs 20:40
    65%

    40 But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him, You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself.

  • Lam 4:19
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    19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

  • Jer 48:27
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    27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.

  • Isa 14:19
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    19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

  • 1 Sam 25:34
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    34 For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9-10
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    9 And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?

    10 By the life of the Lord your God, there is not a nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent in search of you; and when they said, He is not here; he made them take an oath that they had not seen you.

  • Hab 2:7
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    7 Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?

  • Isa 41:3
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    3 He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.

  • Deut 25:18
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    18 How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.

  • 2 Kgs 19:22
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    22 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 16:4
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    4 Anyone of the family of Baasha who comes to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and he to whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air.

  • 1 Sam 24:2
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    2 Now when Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, news was given him that David was in the waste land of En-gedi.

  • Judg 11:25
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    25 What! are you any better than Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever take up a cause against Israel or make war against them?

  • 1 Sam 15:19
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    19 Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?