OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 25:26

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Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, since the LORD has withheld you from blood guiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil to my lord be as Nabal.

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Verse 26. To thee. She felicitates David on not having put his design in execution. Calmet.—Theodoret thinks he might lawfully have done it; but others believe that the fault bore no proportion with the intended punishment. Tirinus.—As Nabal, devoid of sense. Abigail displays the eloquence of nature. Calmet.

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