1 Samuel 25:22

God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one male.' —

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

In Context

21Now 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 returned me evil for good.

23And when Abigail saw David, she made haste, and alighted from her ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed down to the ground.

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Cross References

Ruth 1:17where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the LORD do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.'

1 Samuel 14:44And Saul said: 'God do so and more also; thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.'

1 Samuel 20:16So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David: 'The LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.'

1 Kings 16:11And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he smote all the house of Baasa; he left him not a single man-child, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

2 Kings 9:8For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel.

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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