1 Samuel 26:10

David entrusts Saul's fate entirely to the LORD, who will strike him in His own time and way. He refuses to take into his own hands what belongs to God's judgment.

Cross-references · 19

• Rom 12:19Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”
• Gen 47:29The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,
• Deut 31:14Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
• Ps 37:13The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
• 1 Sam 25:38About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
• 1 Sam 31:6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.
• 1 Sam 25:26Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
• Deut 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
• Ps 37:10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
• Rev 18:8Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.
• Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;
• Ps 94:1–2Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
• Job 14:14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
• 1 Sam 24:15May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
• Luke 18:7Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
• Eccl 3:2a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
• Heb 9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
• Job 7:1“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
• Ps 94:23He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

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