1 Samuel 25:39

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

Pleaded

Proverbs 22:23

Lamentations 3:58

Micah 7:9

Kept his servant

2 Timothy 4:18

Hath returned

To take her

Proverbs 18:22

Bible References

Pleaded

for the LORD himself will defend their cause, and do violence unto them that have used violence.

{Res} Thou, O LORD, hast maintained the cause of my soul, and hast redeemed my life.

I will bear the punishment of the LORD - For why? I have offended him - till he sit in judgment upon my cause, and see that I have right. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall see his righteousness.

Kept his servant

And now my lord as sure as the LORD liveth and as thy soul liveth, the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood and from avenging thyself with thine own hand. Furthermore, I pray God that thine enemies and they that intend to do my lord evil, may be as Nabal.

"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps:

I desire before God that ye do none evil, not that we should seem commendable: but that ye should do that which is honest, and let us be counted as lewd persons.

The very God of peace sanctify you throughout. And I pray God that your whole spirit, soul, and body, be kept faultless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And the Lord shall deliver me from all evil doing, and shall keep me unto his heavenly kingdom. To whom be praise for ever and ever. Amen.

Hath returned

And when it afterward came to David's ear, he said, "I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever, concerning the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

And then the king said to Shimei, "Thou rememberest all the wickedness which thine heart knoweth that thou didst to David my father. The LORD therefore render again thy wickedness upon thine own head:

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had made for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

For his travail shall come upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate.

To take her

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and receiveth an wholesome benefit of the LORD.