When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Yosef said to his steward, *Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
Psalm 7:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) if I have rewarded evil to him who was at shalom with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary), Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If I have paid back with evil him who was at peace with me or without cause have robbed him who was my enemy, American Standard Version (1901) If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary); Common English Bible if I have repaid a friend with evil or oppressed a foe for no reason— Catholic Public Domain Version O Lord, my God, if there is iniquity in my hands, if I have done this: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version O Lord my God, if I have done this thing, if there be iniquity in my hands: |
When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Yosef said to his steward, *Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
With whoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondservants.*
The LORD has returned on you all the blood of the house of Sha'ul, in whose place you have reigned; and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Avshalom your son; and behold, you are [taken] in your own mischief, because you are a man of blood.
then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.
if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.
But Sha'ul cried with a loud voice, saying, *Don't harm yourself, for we are all here!*
David fled from Nayot in Ramah, and came and said before Yonatan, *What have I done? What is my iniquity?* and *What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?*
Then Achimelekh answered the king, and said, Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?
So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Sha'ul. Sha'ul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
Then said Sha'ul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
Behold, as your life was much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.