1 Samuel 25:29

New English Translation

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!

Cross References

Genesis 15:1

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”

2 Samuel 4:8

They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king, “Look! The head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The Lord has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against Saul and his descendants!”

Job 27:22

It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

Psalm 116:15

The Lord values the lives of his faithful followers.

Psalm 54:3

For foreigners attack me; ruthless men, who do not respect God, seek my life. (Selah)

Psalm 66:9

He preserves our lives and does not allow our feet to slip.

Jeremiah 10:18

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.”

Malachi 3:17

“They will belong to me,” says the Lord who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

John 14:19

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

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

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.

Deuteronomy 33:29

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 Peter 1:5

who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Samuel 2:9

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.