1 Samuel 25:32

32 And David said, "Blessed be God, the God of Israel. He sent you to meet me!

1 Samuel 25:32 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 25:32

And David said to Abigail
Having heard her out, and being overcome with her rhetoric and powerful arguments:

blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet
me;
who put it into her heart to come out and meet him, and endeavour to avert him from his bad design, which his heart was set upon; he saw plainly the hand of God in it, and in the first place acknowledges the goodness of divine Providence, in directing her to take the step she did.

1 Samuel 25:32 In-Context

30 "When God completes all the goodness he has promised my master and sets you up as prince over Israel,
31 my master will not have this dead weight in his heart, the guilt of an avenging murder. And when God has worked things for good for my master, remember me."
32 And David said, "Blessed be God, the God of Israel. He sent you to meet me!
33 And blessed be your good sense! Bless you for keeping me from murder and taking charge of looking out for me.
34 A close call! As God lives, the God of Israel who kept me from hurting you, if you had not come as quickly as you did, stopping me in my tracks, by morning there would have been nothing left of Nabal but dead meat."
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