1 Samuel 25:29
And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the Lord your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
Note Literally fling away the souls of your enemies as from the pocket of a sling
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 middle of a sling.
Note as out…: Heb. in the midst of the bought of a sling
Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.
And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- bound
- The metaphors in this verse are derived from the consideration, that things of value are collected together, and often tied up in bundles, like sheaves of corn, to prevent their being scattered and lost, and that whatever is put into a sling is not intended to be preserved, but to be thrown away.
- 1 Samuel 2:9; Genesis 15:1; Deuteronomy 33:29; Psalm 66:9; Psalm 116:15; Malachi 3:17; Matthew 10:29, 30
- with the Lord
- John 10:27–30; John 14:19; John 17:21, 23; Colossians 3:3, 4; 1 Peter 1:5
- sling out
- Jeremiah 10:18