Judges 8:1-3
Gideon Defeats Zebah and Zalmunna
1 aThen the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely. 2And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not bthe gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? 3 cGod has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” dThen their anger ▼▼Hebrew their spirit
against him subsided when he said this. 1 Samuel 25:21-33
21Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, fso that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has greturned me evil for good. 22 hGod 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 jand got down from the donkey kand fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground. 24She fell at his feet and said, l“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 mthis 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, oas the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because pthe Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from qsaving with your own hand, now then rlet your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal. 27And now let this spresent 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 ta sure house, because my lord uis 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 vhe 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 xworking salvation himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.” 32And David said to Abigail, y“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, zwho have kept me this day from bloodguilt aaand from working salvation with my own hand!
Proverbs 25:15
15 With abpatience a ruler may be persuaded,and a soft tongue will break a bone.
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