1 Samuel 25:21

Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.

In Context

20As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.

22May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”

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Cross References

Genesis 44:4They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?

Job 30:8A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

Psalms 37:8Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.

Psalms 109:3They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

Jeremiah 18:20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.

Ephesians 4:26“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

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 →

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