Ecclesiastes 10:4 References
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If the ruler's temper rises against you, ado not abandon your position, because bcomposure allays great offenses.
b 1 Samuel 25:24-33, Proverbs 25:15
1 Samuel 25
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She fell at his feet and said, "On me alone, my lord, be the blame. And please let your maidservant speak to you, and listen to the words of your maidservant.
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"Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and folly is with him; but I your maidservant did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.
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"Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, since the Lord has restrained you from shedding blood, and afrom avenging yourself by your own hand, now then blet your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be as Nabal.
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"Now let athis gift which your maidservant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who accompany my lord.
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"Please forgive athe transgression of your maidservant; for bthe Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord is cfighting the battles of the Lord, and devil will not be found in you all your days.
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"Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; but the lives of your enemies aHe will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
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"And when the Lord does for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and aappoints you ruler over Israel,
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this will not cause grief or a troubled heart to my lord, both by having shed blood without cause and by my lord having avenged himself. aWhen the Lord deals well with my lord, then remember your maidservant."
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Then David said to Abigail, "aBlessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me,
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and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, awho have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.