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And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came downagainst her; and she met them.
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Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
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And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
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Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaidsaw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
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Now therefore, my lord, as the LORDliveth, and as thy soulliveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seekevil to my lord, be as Nabal.
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I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainlymake my lord a surehouse; because my lordfighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
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Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middleof a sling.