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1 Samuel 23:21
And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have had compassion on me.
1 Samuel 23:21 · American Standard Version
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1 Samuel 23:21 in other translations
And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
“May you be blessed by the LORD,” replied Saul, “for you have had compassion on me.
Saul said, “You are blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me.
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In context
18 And they two made a covenant before Jehovah: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
20 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.
21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have had compassion on me.
22 Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly.
23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.
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