1 Samuel 25:21
David had just been complaining, “So much for my protecting everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness! Nothing at all was stolen from him, and yet what does he do? Pay me back evil for good!
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22May God punish me very severely if I leave even a single one of his men alive by morning!”
Cross References
Genesis 44:4They had hardly left the city when Joseph told his household supervisor, “Go after those men, and when you catch up with them, ask them, ‘Why have you paid back good with evil by stealing my master's silver cup?
Job 30:8They are foolish, nameless people that have been driven from the land.
Psalms 37:8Give up your anger! Let go of your rage! Don't get mad—it only results in evil!
Psalms 109:3They surround me with words of hate, fighting against me for no reason.
Jeremiah 18:20Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they have dug a pit to trap me! Remember how I stood before you to plead on their behalf, to stop you being angry with them?
Ephesians 4:26Don't sin by getting angry; don't let evening come and find you still mad—
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 →