When slighted by her husband, Nabal the Churl, Abigail advises David not to act out, take revenge. If only he’d listened to her counsel that day on the roof top before sleeping with Bathsheba and killing her husband!
If anyone should rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living under the care of the LORD your God; but the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
1 Sam 25:29 (NRSV)
If anyone stands in your way, if anyone tries to get you out of the way, Know this: Your God-honored life is tightly bound in the bundle of God-protected life; But the lives of your enemies will be hurled aside as a stone is thrown from a sling.
Message
The Jewish Study Bible equates this “bundle of the living” (only here) with the Book of Life.
I recently watched Casino Royale, and 007 learns to trust nobody. A kind of insanity the Western male is prone to admire—being the single stone flung from the hollow of the slingshot.
Personally, I’d rather be bound in the bundle of the living.
Photo by Mary Fran