39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord who championed my cause against Nabal’s insults(A) and restrained his servant from doing evil.(B) The Lord brought Nabal’s evil deeds back on his own head.”(C)

Then David sent messengers to speak to Abigail about marrying him.

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33 The responsibility for their deaths will come back to Joab and to his descendants[a] forever, but for David, his descendants, his dynasty, and his throne, there will be peace from the Lord forever.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:33 Lit Their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his seed

25 But when the matter was brought before the king,(A) he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head(B) and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.(C)

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