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.


In Context

30 It shall come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over Israel,

31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.|

32 David said to Abigail, |Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!

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

34 For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.|

35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said to her, |Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request.|

1 Samuel 25:33 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

25:33May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.

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 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.