Ecclesiastes 10:4 Cross References - MKJV

⁴ If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, do not leave your place; for yielding quiets great sinners.

²⁴ And she fell at his feet and said, On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be. And please let your handmaid speak in your ears, and hear the words of your handmaid. ²⁵ Please do not let my lord regard this man of worthlessness, Nabal. For as his name is, so he is. Nabal is his name, and foolishness is with him. And I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent. ²⁶ And now, my lord, as Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, since Jehovah has withheld you from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and those that seek to do evil to my lord, be as Nabal. ²⁷ And now this blessing which your handmaid has brought to my lord, let it even be given to the young men who follow my lord. ²⁸ Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid. For Jehovah will certainly make a sure house for my lord, because my lord fights the battles of Jehovah, and evil has not been found in you all your days. ²⁹ Yet a man has risen to pursue you and to seek your soul. But the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah your God. And the souls of your enemies, He shall sling them from the hollow of a sling. ³⁰ And it shall be, when Jehovah has done to my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and commanded you to be ruler over Israel, ³¹ this shall be no stumbling to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood for nothing, or that my lord has delivered himself. And may Jehovah deal well with my lord, and you remember your handmaid. ³² And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me. ³³ And blessed is your advice, and blessed are you who have kept me from coming to shed blood today, and from delivering myself with my own hand. ³⁴ And truly, as Jehovah, the God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from doing evil to you, for unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal by the morning light one who urinates against the wall. ³⁵ And David received from her hand that which she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to your house. See, I have listened to your voice and have accepted your person. ³⁶ And Abigail came to Nabal. And behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. And she did not tell him anything, more or less, until the morning light. ³⁷ And it happened in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal and his wife had told him these things, his heart died within him and he became like a stone. ³⁸ And it happened about ten days afterward Jehovah struck Nabal so that he died. ³⁹ And David heard that Nabal had died, and he said, Blessed is Jehovah who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil. For Jehovah has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head. And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife. ⁴⁰ And David's servants came to Abigail at Carmel, and spoke to her, saying, David sent us to you to take you to him for a wife. ⁴¹ And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. ⁴² And Abigail hurried and arose, and rode on an ass, with five of her maidens who went after her. And she followed the messengers of David and became his wife. ⁴³ David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel. And they became, both of them, his wives. ⁴⁴ And Saul gave his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

¹⁵ In being slow to anger a ruler is won over, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.

³ Do not be hasty to leave his presence. Do not take a stand in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him.