1 Samuel 25:27-31
1 Samuel 25:27
And now let this gift which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who accompany my lord.
1 Samuel 25:28
Please forgive the offense of your slave; for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil will not be found in you all your days.
1 Samuel 25:29
Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; but the lives of your enemies He will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
1 Samuel 25:30
And when the Lord does for my lord in accordance with all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and appoints you ruler over Israel,
1 Samuel 25:31
this will not become an obstacle to you, or a troubled heart to my lord, both by having shed blood without cause and by my lord’s having avenged himself. When the Lord deals well with my lord, then remember your slave.”