1 Samuel 25:29
For if a man, at any time, will rise up, pursuing you and seeking your life, the life of my lord will be preserved, as if in the sheave of the living, with the Lord your God. But the lives of your enemies will be spun around, as if with the force of a whirling sling.
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Genesis 15:1And so, these things having been transacted, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your protector, and your reward is exceedingly great.”
1 Samuel 2:9He will preserve the feet of his holy ones, and the impious will be silenced in darkness. For no man will prevail by his own strength.
Jeremiah 10:18For thus says the Lord: “Behold, in this turn, I will cast the inhabitants of the land far away. And I will afflict them no matter where they may be found.”
Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.
John 14:19Yet a little while and the world will not see me any longer. But you will see me. For I live, and you shall live.
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 →