1 Samuel 25:39
On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head." Then David sent word to Abigail, asking for her in marriage.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:15
May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand."

1 Samuel 25:26
Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:34
Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light."

1 Samuel 25:40
When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, "David has sent us to take you as his wife."

2 Samuel 22:48
the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me,

1 Kings 2:44
The king also said, "You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head.

Proverbs 22:23
for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.


Treasury of Scripture
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept his servant from evil: for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

Blessed



1 Samuel 25:32
And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:



Judges 5:2
Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.



2 Samuel 22:47-49
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation…

pleaded



Proverbs 22:23
For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.



Lamentations 3:58-60
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life…



Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

kept his servant



1 Samuel 25:26,34
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal…



Hosea 2:6,7
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths…



2 Corinthians 13:7
Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

hath returned



2 Samuel 3:28,29
And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner: …



1 Kings 2:44
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;



Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.



Proverbs 18:22
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.



Proverbs 19:14
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.



Proverbs 31:10,30
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies…


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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