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1 Samuel 25:26
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
as the Lord liveth: 1 Samuel 25:34, 1 Samuel 22:3, 2 Kings 2:2, 2 Kings 4:6
and as thy: 1 Samuel 1:26
the Lord hath: 1 Samuel 25:33, Genesis 20:6
from: Romans 12:19, Romans 12:20
avenging thyself: Heb. saving thyself, Psalms 18:47, Psalms 18:48, Psalms 44:3
now let: 2 Samuel 18:32, Jeremiah 29:22, Daniel 4:19
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:3 - but truly 1 Samuel 25:25 - man of Belial 1 Samuel 25:39 - kept his servant 1 Samuel 26:10 - the Lord liveth 2 Samuel 2:27 - As God 2 Samuel 11:11 - as thou livest 2 Samuel 14:19 - As thy soul 2 Samuel 15:21 - As the Lord 1 Kings 17:12 - As the Lord Job 27:2 - God liveth Job 27:7 - General Proverbs 31:12 - General
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Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now therefore, my lord, [as] the Lord liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth,.... Which is an oath, and respects either what goes before, that she never saw the young men that were sent to Nabal, or to what follows, the providence of God in preventing David from shedding blood, which she was sure of by an impulse on her own mind, and by observing a change in David's countenance:
seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand; she does not impute this to her prudence, and the provision she made to appease David, and prevent him from shedding the blood he intended, and taking the vengeance he had resolved on; but to the Lord, and the interposition of his providence, which she knew would have its weight on the mind of so good a man as David was; who upon reflection would be thankful that he had been prevented from shedding innocent blood, as the Targum calls it:
now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal; meaning Saul and those with him, wishing they might be as inconsiderable as Nabal; as unable, as weak, and impotent as he to do him any hurt, and as short lived, and cut off by the hand God, as he would be; for, according to Jarchi, she prophesied under the direction of the Holy Spirit. It may be observed that in 1 Samuel 25:24, she frequently gives David the title of "my lord", in reverence of him, and to atone for the rudeness and insolence of her husband, in speaking of him as a runaway servant, 1 Samuel 25:10.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The passage should be rendered as follows: “And now my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth,” it is “the Lord” that “hath withholden thee from coming” into blood-guiltiness (as in 1 Samuel 25:33), “and from saving thyself with thine own hand;” and “now” all “thine enemies” shall be as Nabal (whom she considers as utterly impotent to hurt David, and as already thoroughly humbled before him), and (so shall be) all “that seek evil to my Lord.”
