1 Samuel 25:31
Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.
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32And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:
Cross References
Genesis 40:14But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:
1 Samuel 25:33A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.
1 Samuel 26:23And the Lord will give to every man the reward of his righteousness and his faith: because the Lord gave you into my hands today, and I would not put out my hand against the man who has been marked with the holy oil.
Psalms 94:1O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.
Luke 23:42And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom.
Romans 14:21It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 25:19-32
Abigail Meets David. ( b. c. 1057.) 18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. 19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. 20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down… Read the whole commentary →