Genesis 32:3-28

3And Jacob sent
Or had sent
messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of bSeir, the country of Edom,
4instructing them, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now. 5I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that cI may find favor in your sight.’”

6And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and dhe is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him.” 7Then Jacob was egreatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps, 8thinking, “If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape.”

9And Jacob said, f“O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who gsaid to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’ 10 hI am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for iI fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children. 12But jyou said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”

13So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took ka present for his brother Esau, 14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.” 17He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’ 18then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.’” 19He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him, 20and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him
Hebrew  appease his face
with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
Hebrew  he will lift my face
21So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

Jacob Wrestles with God

22The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children,
Or sons
and crossed the ford of the oJabbok.
23He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. 24And Jacob was left alone. And pa man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, q“I will not let you go unless you bless me.” 27And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28Then he said, r“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,
 Israel means He strives with God, or God strives
for tyou have striven with God and uwith men, and have prevailed.”

1 Samuel 25:18-35

18Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs
A  seah was about 7 quarts or 7.3 liters
of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
19And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal. 20And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them. 21Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, wso that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has xreturned me evil for good. 22 yGod do so to the enemies of David
Septuagint  to David
and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”

23When Abigail saw David, she hurried aaand got down from the donkey aband fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground. 24She fell at his feet and said, ac“On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant. 25Let not my lord regard adthis worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal
 Nabal means fool
is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
26Now then, my lord, afas the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because agthe Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from ahsaving with your own hand, now then ailet your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal. 27And now let this ajpresent that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord. 28Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make my lord aka sure house, because my lord alis fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live. 29If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies amhe shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling. 30And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince
Or leader
over Israel,
31my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord aoworking salvation himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”

32And David said to Abigail, apBlessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, aqwho have kept me this day from bloodguilt arand from working salvation with my own hand! 34For as surely asas the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, atwho has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.” 35Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, au“Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition.”

Job 22:21

21 avAgree with God, and awbe at peace;
thereby good will come to you.

Job 23:7

7There an upright man could argue with him,
and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

Psalms 32:6

6 Therefore let everyone who is axgodly
offer prayer to you at a time when you aymay be found;
surely in the rush of azgreat waters,
they shall not reach him.

Luke 14:31-32

31Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not basit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.
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