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highlighted 1 Samuel 26:23-24 NLT
The LORD gives his own reward for doing good and for being loyal, and I refused to kill you even when the LORD placed you in my power, for you are the LORD’s anointed one. Now may the LORD value my life, even as I have valued yours today. May he rescue me from all my troubles.”
Mar 9
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highlighted 1 Samuel 26:21-22 NLT
Then Saul confessed, “I have sinned. Come back home, my son, and I will no longer try to harm you, for you valued my life today. I have been a fool and very, very wrong.” “Here is your spear, O king,” David replied. “Let one of your young men come over and get it.
Mar 9
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highlighted 1 Samuel 26:20 NLT
Must I die on foreign soil, far from the presence of the LORD? Why has the king of Israel come out to search for a single flea? Why does he hunt me down like a partridge on the mountains?”
Mar 9
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highlighted 1 Samuel 26:18-19 NLT
Why are you chasing me? What have I done? What is my crime? But now let my lord the king listen to his servant. If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then let him accept my offering. But if this is simply a human scheme, then may those involved be cursed by the LORD. For they have driven me from my home, so I can no longer live among the LORD’s people, and they have said, ‘Go, worship pagan gods.’
Mar 9
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highlighted 1 Samuel 26:17 NLT
Saul recognized David’s voice and called out, “Is that you, my son David?” And David replied, “Yes, my lord the king.
Mar 9
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highlighted 1 Samuel 26:9-12 NLT
Surely the LORD will strike Saul down someday, or he will die of old age or in battle. The LORD forbid that I should kill the one he has anointed! But take his spear and that jug of water beside his head, and then let’s get out of here!” So David took the spear and jug of water that were near Saul’s head. Then he and Abishai got away without anyone seeing them or even waking up, because the LORD had put Saul’s men into a deep sleep. “No!” David said. “Don’t kill him. For who can remain innocent after attacking the LORD’s anointed one?
Mar 9
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highlighted 1 Samuel 26:7-8 NLT
So David and Abishai went right into Saul’s camp and found him asleep, with his spear stuck in the ground beside his head. Abner and the soldiers were lying asleep around him. “God has surely handed your enemy over to you this time!” Abishai whispered to David. “Let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won’t need to strike twice!”
Mar 9
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highlighted 1 Samuel 26:5-6 NLT
David slipped over to Saul’s camp one night to look around. Saul and Abner son of Ner, the commander of his army, were sleeping inside a ring formed by the slumbering warriors. “Who will volunteer to go in there with me?” David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother. “I’ll go with you,” Abishai replied.
Mar 9
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highlighted 1 Samuel 26:1-3 NLT
Now some men from Ziph came to Saul at Gibeah to tell him, “David is hiding on the hill of Hakilah, which overlooks Jeshimon.” So Saul took 3,000 of Israel’s elite troops and went to hunt him down in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul camped along the road beside the hill of Hakilah, near Jeshimon, where David was hiding. When David learned that Saul had come after him into the wilderness,
Mar 9
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:44 NLT
Saul, meanwhile, had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to a man from Gallim named Palti son of Laish.
Mar 8
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:43 NLT
David also married Ahinoam from Jezreel, making both of them his wives.
Mar 8
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:42 NLT
Quickly getting ready, she took along five of her servant girls as attendants, mounted her donkey, and went with David’s messengers. And so she became his wife.
Mar 8
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:40-41 NLT
When the messengers arrived at Carmel, they told Abigail, “David has sent us to take you back to marry him.” She bowed low to the ground and responded, “I, your servant, would be happy to marry David. I would even be willing to become a slave, washing the feet of his servants!”
Mar 8
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:39 NLT
When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise the LORD, who has avenged the insult I received from Nabal and has kept me from doing it myself. Nabal has received the punishment for his sin.” Then David sent messengers to Abigail to ask her to become his wife.
Mar 8
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:38 NLT
About ten days later, the LORD struck him, and he died.
Mar 8
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:37 NLT
In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him what had happened. As a result he had a stroke, and he lay paralyzed on his bed like a stone.
Mar 8
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:35 NLT
Then David accepted her present and told her, “Return home in peace. I have heard what you said. We will not kill your husband.”
Mar 8
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:32-34 NLT
David replied to Abigail, “Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you to meet me today! Thank God for your good sense! Bless you for keeping me from murder and from carrying out vengeance with my own hands. For I swear by the LORD, the God of Israel, who has kept me from hurting you, that if you had not hurried out to meet me, not one of Nabal’s men would still be alive tomorrow morning.”
Mar 8
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:30-31 NLT
When the LORD has done all he promised and has made you leader of Israel, don’t let this be a blemish on your record. Then your conscience won’t have to bear the staggering burden of needless bloodshed and vengeance. And when the LORD has done these great things for you, please remember me, your servant!”
Mar 8
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highlighted 1 Samuel 25:29 NLT
“Even when you are chased by those who seek to kill you, your life is safe in the care of the LORD your God, secure in his treasure pouch! But the lives of your enemies will disappear like stones shot from a sling!
Mar 8