1 Samuel 25:26 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁶ “And now my master, as יהוה  lives and as your being lives, since יהוה  has withheld you from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies be as Naḇ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ So now, my lord, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, seeing that the Lord has prevented you from bloodguiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah hath withholden thee from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

Common English Bible

²⁶ I pledge, my master, as surely as the LORD lives and as you live, that the LORD has held you back from bloodshed and taking vengeance into your own hands! But now let your enemies and those who seek to harm my master be exactly like Nabal!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as your soul lives, and as the Lord lives, who has kept your hand to yourself, and has prevented you from coming to blood: now, let your enemies be like Nabal, and like all those who are seeking evil for my lord.

1 Samuel 25:26 Cross References

Genesis 20:6

And Elohim said to him in a dream, “Yea, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. For this reason I did not let you touch her.

2 Samuel 18:32

And the sovereign said to the Kushite, “Peace to the young man, to Aḇ

2 Kings 2:2

And Ě

2 Kings 4:6

And it came to be, when the vessels were filled, that she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” But he said to her, “There is not another vessel.” And the oil ceased.

Psalm 44:3

For not by their own sword did they possess the land, Neither did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand and Your arm, And the light of Your face, Because You delighted in them.

Proverbs 31:12

She shall do him good, and not evil, All the days of her life.

Jeremiah 29:22

‘And because of them all the exiles of Yehuḏ

Daniel 4:19

Then Dani’ĕ

Hebrews 10:30

For we know Him who has said, “Vengeance is Mine, I shall repay, says יהוה.” And again, “יהוה  shall judge His people.”

1 Samuel 1:26

And she said, “O my master! As your being lives, my master, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to יהוה.

1 Samuel 2:9

“He guards the feet of His kind ones, but the wrong are silent in darkness, for man does not become mighty by power.

1 Samuel 20:16

And Yehonathan made a covenant with the house of Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 20:3

But Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 22:3

And Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 25:25

“Please, let not my master regard this man of Beliyaʽ

1 Samuel 25:39

And Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 26:10

Dawiḏ