1 SAMUEL 25:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.”
'For as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, surely by the morning light there would not have been left to Nabal so much as one male' — David articulates the counterfactual: without Abigail's intervention, the morning would have brought total annihilation. The oath formula ('ḥay YHWH elohê yiśrāʾēl ʾašer mᵉnaʿank') shows David acknowledging God's restraint working through Abigail's wisdom.
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