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1 Samuel 25:29

Protection and safetyGod's faithfulness

27 Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.

28 Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.

And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.

30 When the LORD has done for my lord all the good He promised, and when He has appointed you ruler over Israel,

31 then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your maidservant.”

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BSB
And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
KJV
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
WEB
Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.
ASV
And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
DARBY
And if a man is risen up to pursue thee and to seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out from the hollow of the sling.
BLB
And a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, and the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with YHWH your God. And the souls of your enemies He shall sling out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.
ÅB
Og om noen står fram, som forfølger deg og står deg etter livet, da skal min herres liv være gjemt blant de levendes flokk hos Herren din Gud; men dine fienders liv skal han slynge bort som en stein av slyngen.
OTB
Og når noen reiser seg for å forfølge deg og for å søke ditt liv, vil min herres liv være bundet i de levendes knippe med Herren din Gud; men dine fienders liv vil han slynge ut som fra hulen av en slynge.
B1930
Og om nogen står frem, som forfølger dig og står dig efter livet, da skal min herres liv være gjemt blandt de levendes flokk hos Herren din Gud; men dine fienders liv skal han slynge bort som en sten av slyngen.

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  • John 17:21

    that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

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  • Malachi 3:17

    “They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.

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  • Matthew 10:29–30

    Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

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  • Jeremiah 10:18

    For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”

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  • Psalms 116:15

    Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.

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  • 1 Samuel 2:9

    He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.

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  • John 17:23

    I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

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  • Psalms 66:9

    He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.

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