1 Samuel 24:11
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11 Look, my father, at what I have in my hand. It is a piece of the hem of your robe! I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. This proves that I am not trying to harm you and that I have not sinned against you, even though you have been hunting for me to kill me.
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1 Samuel 26:20
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20 Must I die on foreign soil, far from the presence of the Lord? Why has the king of Israel come out to search for a single flea? Why does he hunt me down like a partridge on the mountains?”
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1 Samuel 23:23
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23 Discover his hiding places, and come back when you are sure. Then I’ll go with you. And if he is in the area at all, I’ll track him down, even if I have to search every hiding place in Judah!”
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1 Samuel 23:14
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14 David now stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness and in the hill country of Ziph. Saul hunted him day after day, but God didn’t let Saul find him.
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John 15:25
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25 This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures[a]: ‘They hated me without cause.’
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2 Kings 5:13
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13 But his officers tried to reason with him and said, “Sir,[a] if the prophet had told you to do something very difficult, wouldn’t you have done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says simply, ‘Go and wash and be cured!’”
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- 5:13 Hebrew My father.
1 Samuel 26:18
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18 Why are you chasing me? What have I done? What is my crime?
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Micah 7:2
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2 The godly people have all disappeared;
not one honest person is left on the earth.
They are all murderers,
setting traps even for their own brothers.
Ezekiel 13:18
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18 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: What sorrow awaits you women who are ensnaring the souls of my people, young and old alike. You tie magic charms on their wrists and furnish them with magic veils. Do you think you can trap others without bringing destruction on yourselves?
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Lamentations 4:18
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18 We couldn’t go into the streets
without danger to our lives.
Our end was near; our days were numbered.
We were doomed!
Proverbs 15:1
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15 A gentle answer deflects anger,
but harsh words make tempers flare.
Psalm 140:11
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11 Don’t let liars prosper here in our land.
Cause great disasters to fall on the violent.
Psalm 35:7
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7 I did them no wrong, but they laid a trap for me.
I did them no wrong, but they dug a pit to catch me.
Psalm 7:3-4
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3 O Lord my God, if I have done wrong
or am guilty of injustice,
4 if I have betrayed a friend
or plundered my enemy without cause,
Job 10:16
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16 And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion
and display your awesome power against me.
1 Samuel 18:27
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27 he and his men went out and killed 200 Philistines. Then David fulfilled the king’s requirement by presenting all their foreskins to him. So Saul gave his daughter Michal to David to be his wife.
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