1 Samuel 25:29 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁹ “And if a man rises to pursue you and seek your life, and the life of my master has been bound in the bundle of the living with יהוה  your Elohim, then the lives of your enemies He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ Though man is risen up to pursue you and to seek your life, yet the life of my lord shall be bound in the living bundle with the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies–them shall He sling out as out of the center of a sling.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.

Common English Bible

²⁹ If someone chases after you and tries to kill you, my master, then your life will be bound up securely in the bundle of life by the LORD your God, but he will fling away your enemies’ lives as from the pouch of a sling.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ For if a man, at any time, will rise up, pursuing you and seeking your life, the life of my lord will be preserved, as if in the sheave of the living, with the Lord your God. But the lives of your enemies will be spun around, as if with the force of a whirling sling.

1 Samuel 25:29 Cross References

Genesis 15:1

After these events the word of יהוה  came to Aḇ

2 Samuel 4:8

and brought the head of Ishbosheth to Dawiḏ

Job 27:22

And it hurls itself against him and does not spare; he swiftly flees from its power.

Psalm 116:15

Precious in the eyes of יהוה  Is the death of His kind ones.

Psalm 54:3

For strangers have risen up against me, And cruel men have sought after my life; They have not set Elohim before them. Selah.

Psalm 66:9

Who keeps us in life, And does not allow our feet to be moved.

Jeremiah 10:18

For thus said יהוה, “See, at this time I am hurling out the inhabitants of the land, and shall distress them, so that they feel it.”

Malachi 3:17

“And they shall be Mine,” said יהוה  of hosts, “on the day that I prepare a treasured possession. And I shall spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

John 14:19

“Yet a little while, and the world no longer sees Me, but you shall see Me, because I live, and you shall live.

John 17:21

so that they all might be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, so that they too might be one in Us, so that the world might believe that You have sent Me.

John 17:23

“I in them, and You in Me, so that they might be perfected into one, so that the world knows that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

Deuteronomy 33:29

“Blessed are you, O Yisra’ĕ

1 Peter 1:5

who are protected by the power of Elohim through belief, for a deliverance ready to be revealed in the last time,

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.