◄ 1 Samuel 23:21 ►
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Good News Translation
Saul answered, "May the LORD bless you for being so kind to me!

New Revised Standard Version
Saul said, “May you be blessed by the LORD for showing me compassion!

Contemporary English Version
Saul told them: You've done me a big favor, and I pray that the LORD will bless you.

New American Bible
Saul replied: “The LORD bless you for your compassion toward me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord, for you have pitied my case.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord, for you have pitied my case.

1 Samuel 22:8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to inform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with the son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that giveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant against me, plotting against me to this day.

Judges 17:2 Who said to his mother: The eleven hundred pieces of silver, which thou hadst put aside for thyself, and concerning which thou didst swear in my hearing, behold I have, and they are with me. And she said to him. Blessed be my son by the Lord.

Psalm 10:3 For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.

Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the Lord, you that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hate you, and cast you out for my name's sake, have said: Let the Lord be glorified, and we shall see in your joy: but they shall be confounded.

Micah 3:11 You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Context
Saul Pursues David
…20Now therefore come down, as thy soul hath desired to come down: and it shall be our business to deliver him into the king's hands. 21And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord, for you have pitied my case.22Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all diligence, and curiously inquire, and consider the place where his foot is, and who hath seen him there: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in wait for him.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 22:8
That all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one to inform me, especially when even my son hath entered into league with the son of Isai? There is not one of you that pitieth my case, nor that giveth me any information: because my son hath raised up my servant against me, plotting against me to this day.

1 Samuel 23:22
Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all diligence, and curiously inquire, and consider the place where his foot is, and who hath seen him there: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in wait for him.

2 Samuel 2:5
David therefore sent messengers to the men of Jabes Galaad, and said to them: Blessed be you to the Lord, who have shewn this mercy to your master Saul, and have buried him.

1 Samuel 23:20
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