⁶ Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; furthermore, it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

³⁴ For as surely as the Lord the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there would not have been left to Nabal so much as one male.”

²⁶ “Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, since the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from taking vengeance with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be like Nabal.^(A)

⁵ As they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities all around them, so that no one pursued them.^(A)

⁷ yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not permit him to harm me.^(A)

⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed.^(A)

²⁴ For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.