1 Samuel 25:32

32 David said to Abigail, "Bless the LORD God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today!

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 the LORD has done for my master all the good things he has promised you, and has installed you as Israel's leader,

31 don't let this be a blot or burden on my master's conscience, that you shed blood needlessly or that my master took vengeance into his own hands. When the LORD has done good things for my master, please remember your servant."

32 David said to Abigail, "Bless the LORD God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today!

33 And bless you and your good judgment for preventing me from shedding blood and taking vengeance into my own hands today!

34 Otherwise, as surely as the LORD God of Israel lives—the one who kept me from hurting you—if you hadn't come quickly and met up with me, there wouldn't be one single male left come morning."