1 Samuel 25:33 - Printer Friendly

ESV: Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand!

NIV: May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.

NASB: and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

CSB: May your discernment be blessed, and may you be blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.

NLT: Thank God for your good sense! Bless you for keeping me from murder and from carrying out vengeance with my own hands.

KJV: And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

NKJV: And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

First Samuel introduces the key figures who led Israel after the era of the judges. The books of 1 and 2 Samuel were originally part of a single text, split in certain translations shortly before the birth of Christ. Some of the Bible’s most famous characters are depicted in this book. These including the prophet Samuel, Israel’s first king, Saul, her greatest king, David, and other famous names such as Goliath and Jonathan. By the end of this book, Saul has fallen; the book of 2 Samuel begins with David’s ascension to the throne.

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