33May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.


In Context

30 When the Lord has done for my master every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him leader over Israel,

31 my master will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord has brought my master success, remember your servant."

32 David said to Abigail, "Praise be to the Lord , the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.

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

34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord , the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak."

35 Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, "Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request."

1st Samuel 25:33 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:33And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:33And blessed be thou, who hast kept me to day, from coming to blood, and revenging me with my own hand.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:33and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:33And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:33and blessed be thy wisdom, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:33And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:33Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:33and blessed is thy discretion, and blessed art thou in that thou hast restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:33And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, which have kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.