1 Samuel 25:29
When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag of the living by the LORD your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!
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Referenced Verses
- Jer 10:18 : 18 For the LORD says,“I will now throw out those who live in this land. I will bring so much trouble on them that they will actually feel it.”
- Deut 33:29 : 29 You have joy, Israel! Who is like you? You are a people delivered by the LORD, your protective shield and your exalted sword. May your enemies cringe before you; may you trample on their backs.
- 1 Sam 2:9 : 9 He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.
- Ps 66:9 : 9 He preserves our lives and does not allow our feet to slip.
- Ps 116:15 : 15 The LORD values the lives of his faithful followers.
- 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
- Gen 15:1 : 1 The Cutting of the Covenant After these things the LORD’s message came to Abram in a vision:“Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”
- Mal 3:17 : 17 “They will belong to me,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
- Matt 10:29-30 : 29 Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30 Even all the hairs on your head are numbered.
- John 10:27-30 : 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand. 30 The Father and I are one.”
- John 14:19 : 19 In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.
- John 17:21 : 21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
- John 17:23 : 23 I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
- Col 3:3-4 : 3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ(who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.
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- 1 Sam 25:30-312 verses79%
30 The LORD will do for my lord everything that he promised you, and he will make you a leader over Israel.
31 Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the LORD has granted my lord success, please remember your servant.”
- 1 Sam 25:26-283 verses77%
26 “Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, it is the LORD who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.
27 Now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow my lord.
28 Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the LORD will certainly establish a lasting dynasty for my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the LORD. May no evil be found in you all your days!
- 1 Sam 24:18-192 verses75%
18 You have explained today how you have treated me well. The LORD delivered me into your hand, but you did not kill me.
19 Now if a man finds his enemy, does he send him on his way in good shape? May the LORD repay you with good this day for what you have done to me.
- 1 Sam 26:23-242 verses71%
23 The LORD rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty. Even though today the LORD delivered you into my hand, I was not willing to extend my hand against the LORD’s chosen one.
24 In the same way that I valued your life this day, may the LORD value my life and deliver me from all danger.”
- 1 Sam 24:10-134 verses71%
10 Today your own eyes see how the LORD delivered you– this very day– into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity on you and said,‘I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD’s chosen one.’
11 Look, my father, and see the edge of your robe in my hand! When I cut off the edge of your robe, I didn’t kill you. So realize and understand that I am not planning evil or rebellion. Even though I have not sinned against you, you are waiting in ambush to take my life.
12 May the LORD judge between the two of us, and may the LORD vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.
13 It’s like the old proverb says:‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.
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2 May the LORD protect him and save his life! May he be blessed in the land! Do not turn him over to his enemies!
- 1 Sam 26:19-202 verses70%
19 So let my lord the king now listen to the words of his servant. If the LORD has incited you against me, may he take delight in an offering. But if men have instigated this, may they be cursed before the LORD! For they have driven me away this day from being united with the LORD’s inheritance, saying,‘Go on, serve other gods!’
20 Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the LORD’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge in the hill country.”
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7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.
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25 Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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10 David went on to say,“As the LORD lives, the LORD himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.
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19 The LORD will hand you and Israel over to the Philistines! Tomorrow both you and your sons will be with me. The LORD will also hand the army of Israel over to the Philistines!”
- 2 Sam 22:40-412 verses70%
40 You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.
41 You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.
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23 Stay with me. Don’t be afraid! Whoever seeks my life is seeking your life as well. You are secure with me.”
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15 May the LORD be our judge and arbiter. May he see and arbitrate my case and deliver me from your hands!”
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7 Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying,‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.”
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15 Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the LORD has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth
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49 He delivers me from my enemies; you snatch me away from those who attack me; you rescue me from violent men.
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18 I will certainly save you. You will not fall victim to violence. You will escape with your life because you trust in me. I, the LORD, affirm it!”’”
- Ps 18:39-402 verses69%
39 You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.
40 You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.
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42 The prophet then said to him,“This is what the LORD has said,‘Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.’”
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11 She replied,“In that case, let the king invoke the name of the LORD your God so that the avenger of blood may not add to the killing! Then they will not destroy my son!” He replied,“As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
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12 We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive– not one of them!
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8 Abishai said to David,“Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me drive the spear right through him into the ground with one swift jab! A second jab won’t be necessary!”
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5 “You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me– how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained the belt on his waist and the sandals on his feet.
- 2 Sam 14:16-172 verses69%
16 Yes! The king may listen and deliver his female servant from the hand of the man who seeks to remove both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’
17 So your servant said,‘May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the LORD your God be with you!’”
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32 You will see trouble in my dwelling place! Israel will experience blessings, but there will not be an old man in your house for all time.
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8 You must be loyal to your servant, for you have made a covenant with your servant in the LORD’s name. If I am guilty, you yourself kill me! Why bother taking me to your father?”
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16 This failure on your part isn’t good! As surely as the LORD lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the LORD’s chosen one, are as good as dead! Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”
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11 Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants,“My own son, my very own flesh and blood, is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the LORD has spoken to him.
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5 may an enemy relentlessly chase me and catch me; may he trample me to death and leave me lying dishonored in the dust.(Selah)
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17 Look, the LORD will throw you far away, you mere man! He will wrap you up tightly.
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7 So get up now and go out and give some encouragement to your servants. For I swear by the LORD that if you don’t go out there, not a single man will stay here with you tonight! This disaster will be worse for you than any disaster that has overtaken you from your youth right to the present time!”
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13 Rise up, LORD! Confront him! Knock him down! Use your sword to rescue me from the wicked man!
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21 When I send a boy after them, I will say,“Go and find the arrows.” If I say to the boy,‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; get them,’ then come back. For as surely as the LORD lives, you will be safe and there will be no problem.
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21 Now David had been thinking,“In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.
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27 But my servant has slandered me to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. Do whatever seems appropriate to you.
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9 He said to me,‘Stand over me and finish me off! I’m very dizzy, even though I’m still alive.’
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7 The LORD will cause your enemies who attack you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction but flee from you in seven different directions.