1 Samuel 25:29

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, The Infant Samuel Brought by Hannah to Eli, 1665 · Ashmolean Museum, Oxford · Public domainGerbrand van den Eeckhout, The Infant Samuel Brought by Hannah to Eli, 1665, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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1 Samuel 25:29 (WEB)
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 the LORD your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.

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Augustine of Hippo, Against Lying Chapter 21
“Or, truly, because David swore to put Nabal to death, and, upon more considerate clemency, did it not, shall we therefore say that he is to be imitated, so that we may swear to do a thing which afterwards we may see to be not meet to be done?” — editor's note: 1 Sam. xxv. 22–35
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