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Genesis 32:3-8
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And Jacob sent messengers before his face to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the land of Edom.
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And he commanded them, saying, Speak thus to my lord Esau, Thus your servant Jacob says: I have sojourned with Laban and stayed there until now.
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And I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.
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And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.
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And Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies.
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For he thought, If Esau comes to the one company and strikes it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
Genesis 32:13-22
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And he lodged there that night, and took what came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother:
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two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
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thirty milk camels with their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.
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And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, Pass over before me, and put some space from drove to drove.
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And he commanded the first one, saying, When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, To whom do you belong, and where are you going? Whose are these before you?
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then you shall say, They are your servant Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord Esau; and behold, he also is behind us.
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And he commanded the second, the third, and all who followed the droves, saying, You shall speak these words to Esau when you find him;
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and also say, Behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he thought, I will propitiate before his face with the present that goes before me, and afterward when I shall see his face, perhaps he will forgive me.
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So the present passed over before him, but he himself remained that night in the camp.
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And he arose that night and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of Jabbok.
Genesis 33:3-11
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And he crossed over in front of them and prostrated himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
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And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
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And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given your servant.
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Then the maidservants came near, they and their children, and bowed down.
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And Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed down.
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And Esau said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the eyes of my lord.
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And Esau said, I have abundance, my brother; keep what you have to yourself.
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And Jacob said, No, please, if I have now found favor in your eyes, then receive my present from my hand, inasmuch as I have seen your face as though I had seen the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
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Please, take my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I need. So he urged him, and he took it.
1 Samuel 25:17-35
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Now therefore, know and consider what you will do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his household. For he is a son of worthlessness, that no one can speak to him.
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Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already done, five measures of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
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And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
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And so it was, as she rode on the donkey, that she went down under cover of the hill; and behold, David and his men were coming down toward her; and she met them.
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Now David had thought to himself, Surely in vain I have protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing has been missing of all that belongs to him. And he has repaid me evil for good.
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God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I leave to him by morning light any of those who urinate against a wall.
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Now when Abigail saw David, she hastened to dismount from the donkey, fell on her face before David, and prostrated to the ground.
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And she fell at his feet and said: On me, my lord, on me be this iniquity! And please let your handmaid speak in your ears, and hear the words of your handmaid.
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Please, let not my lord set his heart on this man of worthlessness, Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.
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Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, since Jehovah has held you back from coming to blood and from delivering yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies and those who seek evil upon my lord be as Nabal.
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And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who travel on foot with my lord.
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Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid; for Jehovah will bring about to prepare an established house for my lord, because my lord is fighting the battles of Jehovah, and evil is not found in you all your days.
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If a man arises to pursue you and seek your soul, the soul of my lord shall be bound up in the bundle of life with Jehovah your God; and the souls of your enemies He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling.
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And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah has done for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you ruler over Israel,
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that this will not be a matter of conscience, nor stumbling of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has delivered himself. But when Jehovah has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.
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And David said to Abigail: Blessed is Jehovah the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!
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And blessed is your discernment and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to blood and from delivering myself with my own hand.
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For indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hastened and come to meet me, surely by morning light there would not have been left to Nabal any who urinate against a wall!
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So David received from her hand what she had brought to him, and said to her, Go up to your house in peace. Behold, I have heeded your voice and respected your face.
Proverbs 6:1-5
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My son, if you are surety for your friend, if you have struck your hands with a stranger,
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you are snared with the words of your mouth; you are captured with the words of your mouth.
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My son, do this then, and deliver yourself when you come into the hand of your friend: go humble yourself and entreat your friend.
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Do not give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
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Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Proverbs 25:8
Do not be quick to start a quarrel, lest you know not what to do in the end of it, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
Luke 12:58
When you go with your adversary to the ruler, make every effort along the way to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge, the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
Luke 12:59
I tell you, you shall by no means depart from there till you have paid the very last mite.
Luke 14:31
Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:32
Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks terms of peace.
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Job 22:21
Now be useful to Him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come to you.
Psalm 32:6
For this let everyone who is godly pray unto You, in a time when You may be found; surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near him.
Isaiah 55:6
Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Luke 13:24
Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Luke 13:25
When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He will answer and say to you, I do not know you, where you are from,
2 Corinthians 6:2
For He says: In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Hebrews 3:7
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice,
Hebrews 3:13
but exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, that not any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 12:17
For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
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1 Kings 22:26
So the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and return him to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king's son;
1 Kings 22:27
and say, Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I come in peace.