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1 Samuel 25:35
Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.

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Genesis 33:9
But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.

Genesis 33:10
And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

Genesis 33:11
Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.

2 Samuel 16:1
And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.

2 Samuel 16:2
And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.

2 Samuel 16:3
And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said, He is still at Jerusalem: for he said, Today Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.

2 Samuel 16:4
Then the king said to Ziba, Truly everything which was Mephibosheth's is yours. And Ziba said, I give honour to my lord, may I have grace in your eyes, my lord, O king!

Proverbs 17:23
A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

Proverbs 18:16
A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.

Proverbs 19:6
Great numbers will make attempts to get the approval of a ruler: and every man is the special friend of him who has something to give.

Micah 7:3
Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

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1 Samuel 25:1
And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.

1 Samuel 25:3
Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.

1 Samuel 25:5
And David sent ten young men, and said to them, Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal, and say kind words to him in my name;

1 Samuel 25:7
I have had word that you have wool-cutters: now the keepers of your sheep have been with us, and we have done them no evil, and taken nothing of theirs while they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:8
If your young men are questioned they will say the same thing. So now, let my young men have grace in your eyes, for we are come at a good time; please give anything you may have by you to your servants and to your son David.

1 Samuel 25:13
And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

1 Samuel 25:17
So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.

1 Samuel 27:3
And David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal.

1 Samuel 30:5
And David's two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel, had been made prisoners.

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1 Samuel 25:37
And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.

1 Samuel 25:38
And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.

1 Samuel 25:39
And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.

1 Samuel 25:40
And when David's servants came to Carmel, to Abigail, they said to her, David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.

1 Samuel 25:41
And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.

1 Samuel 25:44
Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish of Gallim.

Proverbs 15:18
An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.

Proverbs 16:14
The wrath of the king is like those who give news of death, but a wise man will put peace in place of it.

Proverbs 25:15
A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.

Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.

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Job 34:19
Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

Acts 10:35
But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

James 2:1
My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.

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Psalms 145:19
To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.

John 9:31
We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

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Malachi 1:8
And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.

Malachi 1:9
And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.

Matthew 3:17
And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

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John 14:27
May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

Acts 15:33
And when they had been there for some time, they were sent back in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

Acts 16:36
And the keeper said to Paul, The authorities have given orders to let you go: come out now, and go in peace.

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