28 So Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, [a]“All is well!” Then he bowed down with his face to the earth before the king, and said, (A)“Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king!”

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  1. 2 Samuel 18:28 Peace be to you

And when the woman of Tekoa [a]spoke to the king, she (A)fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself, and said, (B)“Help, O king!”

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  1. 2 Samuel 14:4 Many Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. came

20 And (A)blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”

And he (B)gave him [a]a tithe of all.

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  1. Genesis 14:20 one-tenth

Heaven Exults over Babylon

19 After these things (A)I [a]heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Alleluia! (B)Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to [b]the Lord our God! For (C)true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He (D)has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.” Again they said, “Alleluia! (E)Her smoke rises up forever and ever!”

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  1. Revelation 19:1 NU, M add something like
  2. Revelation 19:1 NU, M omit the Lord

A Song to the Lord Who Preserves and Prospers His People

A Psalm of David.

144 Blessed be the Lord my Rock,
(A)Who trains my hands for war,
And my fingers for battle—
My lovingkindness and my fortress,
My high tower and my deliverer,
My shield and the One in whom I take refuge,
Who subdues [a]my people under me.

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  1. Psalm 144:2 So with MT, LXX, Vg.; Syr., Tg. the peoples (cf. 18:47)

Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.

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The Futility of Idols and the Trustworthiness of God

115 Not (A)unto us, O Lord, not unto us,
But to Your name give glory,
Because of Your mercy,
Because of Your truth.

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And have not (A)shut[a] me up into the hand of the enemy;
(B)You have set my feet in a wide place.

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  1. Psalm 31:8 given me over

26 And on the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of [a]Berachah, for there they blessed the Lord; therefore the name of that place was called The Valley of Berachah until this day.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 20:26 Lit. Blessing

27 With the pure You will show Yourself pure;
And (A)with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.

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on the third day, behold, it happened that (A)a man came from Saul’s camp (B)with his clothes [a]torn and dust on his head. So it was, when he came to David, that he (C)fell to the ground and prostrated himself.

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  1. 2 Samuel 1:2 To show grief

Then Abishai said to David, (A)“God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, please, let me strike him [a]at once with the spear, right to the earth; and I will not have to strike him a second time!”

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  1. 1 Samuel 26:8 Or one time

18 And you have shown this day how you have dealt well with me; for when (A)the Lord delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.

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27 And he said, (A)“Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken (B)His mercy and His truth toward my master. As for me, being on the way, the Lord (C)led me to the house of my master’s brethren.”

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