1 Samuel 26:24
Good News Translation
Just as I have spared your life today, may the LORD do the same to me and free me from all troubles!"

New Revised Standard Version
As your life was precious today in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the LORD, and may he rescue me from all tribulation.”

Contemporary English Version
I spared your life today, and I pray that the LORD will spare my life and keep me safe."

New American Bible
Just as I regarded your life as precious today, so may the LORD regard my life as precious and deliver me from all dangers.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as thy life hath been much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me from all distress.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And as thy life hath been much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me from all distress.

as thy life

Psalm 18:25 With the holy thou wilt be holy; and with the innocent man thou wilt be innocent:

Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

let him deliver

Genesis 48:16 The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys: and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.

Psalm 18:1,48 Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said: [2] I will love thee, O Lord, my strength: . . .

Psalm 34:17,18 The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out of all their troubles. . . .

Psalm 114:2 Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 1:9,10 But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead. . . .

2 Thessalonians 3:2 And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all men have not faith.

Revelation 7:14 And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Context
Saul Acknowledges His Sin
23And the Lord will reward every one according to his justice, and his faithfulness: for the Lord hath delivered thee this day into my hand, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed. 24And as thy life hath been much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me from all distress.25Then Saul said to David: Blessed art thou, my son David: and truly doing thou shalt do, and prevailing thou shalt prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:30
And the princes of the Philistines went forth: and from the beginning of their going forth, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, and his name became very famous.

Psalm 54:7
For thou hast delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye hath looked down upon my enemies.

1 Samuel 26:23
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