1 Samuel 25:26-31

Legacy Standard Bible

²⁶ “So now, my lord, as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has restrained you from ^[a]shedding blood, and ^(A)from saving yourself by your own hand, so now, ^(B)let your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be as Nabal. ²⁷ So now let ^(C)this ^[b]gift which your servant-woman has brought to my lord be given to the young men who ^[c]went about with my lord. ²⁸ Please forgive ^(D)the transgression of your maidservant; for ^(E)Yahweh will certainly make for my lord an enduring house because my lord is ^(F)fighting the battles of Yahweh, and ^(G)evil will not be found in you all your days. ²⁹ And should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your ^[d]life, then the ^[e]life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with Yahweh your God; but the ^[f]lives of your enemies ^(H)He will sling out ^[g]as from the hollow of a sling. ³⁰ And it will be that when Yahweh does for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and ^(I)appoints you ruler over Israel, ³¹ then this will not ^[h]cause stumbling or a troubled heart to my lord, both by having shed blood without cause and by my lord having saved himself. ^(J)When Yahweh deals well with my lord, then remember your maidservant.”