Quotes about Protection
They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
— 1 Samuel 25:16
Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.
— 1 Samuel 25:21
Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.
— 1 Samuel 25:26
And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
— 1 Samuel 25:29
Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.
— 1 Samuel 25:33
Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
— 1 Samuel 25:34
So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
— 1 Samuel 26:12
So David said to Abner, “You are a man, aren’t you? And who in Israel is your equal? Why then did you not protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?
— 1 Samuel 26:15
This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”
— 1 Samuel 26:16
As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and rescue me from all trouble.”
— 1 Samuel 26:24
Then Saul swore to her by the LORD: “As surely as the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this.”
— 1 Samuel 28:10
But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us.
— 1 Samuel 30:23