1 Samuel 25:29-31

Common English Bible

²⁹ If someone chases after you and tries to kill you, my master, then your life will be bound up securely in the bundle of life^[a] by the Lord your God, but he will fling away your enemies’ lives as from the pouch of a sling. 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.”