1 Samuel 25:39

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

David heard that Nabal had died. “I praise the LORD!” David said. “He has judged Nabal guilty for insulting me. The LORD kept me from doing anything wrong, and he made sure that Nabal hurt only himself with his own evil.” Abigail was still at Carmel. So David sent messengers to ask her if she would marry him.

Cross References

Proverbs 22:23

The LORD is their defender, and what you do to them, he will do to you.

1 Samuel 25:34

If you hadn't come to meet me so quickly, every man and boy in Nabal's family and in his servants' families would have been killed by morning. I swear by the living LORD God of Israel who protected you that this is the truth.

1 Samuel 25:26

but please take this gift of food that I've brought and share it with your followers. The LORD has kept you from taking revenge and from killing innocent people. But I hope your enemies and anyone else who wants to harm you will end up like Nabal. I swear this by the living LORD and by your life.

Psalm 7:16

The trouble they cause comes back on them, and their heads are crushed by their own evil deeds.

1 Kings 2:44

I know you remember all the cruel things you did to my father David. Now the LORD is going to punish you for what you did.

1 Samuel 25:32

David told her: I praise the LORD God of Israel! He must have sent you to meet me today.

1 Samuel 24:15

I pray that the LORD will help me escape and show that I am in the right.

2 Timothy 4:18

The Lord will always keep me from being harmed by evil, and he will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. Praise him for ever and ever! Amen.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

I pray that God, who gives peace, will make you completely holy. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept healthy and faultless until our Lord Jesus Christ returns.

Micah 7:9

I have sinned against the LORD. And so I must endure his anger, until he comes to my defence. But I know that I will see him making things right for me and leading me to the light.

Song of Solomon 8:8

We have a little sister whose breasts are not yet formed. If someone asks to marry her, what should we do?

Proverbs 31:30

Charm can be deceiving, and beauty fades away, but a woman who honours the LORD deserves to be praised.

Proverbs 31:10

A truly good wife is the most precious treasure a man can find!

Proverbs 19:14

You may inherit all you own from your parents, but a sensible wife is a gift from the LORD.

Proverbs 18:22

A man's greatest treasure is his wife— she is a gift from the LORD.

Esther 7:10

Straight away, Haman was hanged on the tower he had built to hang Mordecai, and the king calmed down.

Judges 5:2

We praise you, LORD! Our soldiers volunteered, ready to follow you.

2 Corinthians 13:7

We pray that you will stop doing evil things. We don't pray like this to make ourselves look good, but to get you to do right, even if we are failures.

1 Samuel 26:10

As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD will kill Saul, or Saul will die a natural death or be killed in battle.

Esther 9:25

Esther went to King Xerxes and asked him to save her people. Then the king gave written orders for Haman and his sons to be punished in the same terrible way that Haman had in mind for the Jews. So they were hanged.

Psalm 9:5

You warn the nations and destroy evil people; you wipe out their names for ever and ever.