for my father fought for you, cast aside his own soul, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

For he took his soul in his own hands and killed the Philistine, and Jehovah brought about a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then would you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?

And the woman came to Saul and saw that he was exceedingly terrified, and said to him, Behold, your handmaid has obeyed your voice, and I have put my life in my hands and heeded the words which you have spoken to me.

Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in my hands?

My life is continually in my hand, yet I do not forget Your Law.

who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and through the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives unto death.

Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you are wronging me by fighting against me. May Jehovah, the Judge, render judgment this day between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.

Now behold, God Himself is with us as our head, and His priests with sounding trumpets to sound the alarm against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against Jehovah the God of your fathers, for you shall not prosper.