Scripture · Old Testament
1 Samuel 25:29
1 Samuel 25:29 is verse 29 of 1 Samuel chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Literally fling away the souls of your enemies as from the pocket of a sling
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
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 Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.
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1 Samuel 25:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
29 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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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Samuel 2:9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
Genesis 15:1After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
Deuteronomy 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
Psalms 66:9He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
Psalms 116:15Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.
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.
Matthew 10:29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
Matthew 10:30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
John 10:27My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
John 10:28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
John 10:29My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
John 14:19In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.
John 17:21that 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.
John 17:23I 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.
Colossians 3:3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:4When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
1 Peter 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Jeremiah 10:18For 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.”