1 Chronicles 12:17
And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”
And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
Note to meet…: Heb. before them
Note be knit: Heb. be one
Note wrong: or, violence
David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, my heart shall be knit unto you; but if ye be come to betray me to mine adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- to meet them
- Heb. before them. If ye be come.
- 1 Samuel 16:4; 2 Samuel 3:20–25; 1 Kings 2:13; 2 Kings 9:22; Psalm 12:1, 2
- heart
- 1 Samuel 18:1, 3; 2 Kings 10:15; Psalm 86:11; 2 Corinthians 13:11; Philippians 1:27
- knit
- Heb. one.
- Jeremiah 32:39; Acts 4:32; 1 Corinthians 1:10
- wrong
- or, violence. God.
- Genesis 31:42, 53; 1 Samuel 24:11–17; 1 Samuel 26:23, 24; Psalm 7:6; 1 Peter 2:23
- rebuke it
- Zechariah 3:2; Jude 1:9