1 Samuel 24:19 {20}
Good News Translation
How often does someone catch an enemy and then let him get away unharmed? The LORD bless you for what you have done to me today!

New Revised Standard Version
For who has ever found an enemy, and sent the enemy safely away? So may the LORD reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.

Contemporary English Version
If you really were my enemy, you wouldn't have let me leave here alive. I pray that the LORD will give you a big reward for what you did today.

New American Bible
For if someone comes upon an enemy, do they send them graciously on their way? So may the LORD reward you graciously for what you have done this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away? But the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to me this day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away? But the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to me this day.

the Lord

1 Samuel 23:21 And Saul said: Blessed be ye of the Lord, for you have pitied my case.

1 Samuel 26:25 Then Saul said to David: Blessed art thou, my son David: and truly doing thou shalt do, and prevailing thou shalt prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

Judges 17:2 Who said to his mother: The eleven hundred pieces of silver, which thou hadst put aside for thyself, and concerning which thou didst swear in my hearing, behold I have, and they are with me. And she said to him. Blessed be my son by the Lord.

Psalm 18:20 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

Proverbs 25:21,22 If thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if he thirst, give him water to drink: . . .

Context
David's Oath to Saul
18And thou hast shewed this day what good things thou hast done to me: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed me. 19For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away? But the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to me this day.20And now as I know that thou shalt surely be king, and have the kingdom of Israel in thy hand:…
Cross References
Ruth 2:12
The Lord render unto thee for thy work, and mayst thou receive a full reward of the Lord the God of Israel, to whom thou art come, and under whose wings thou art fled.

1 Samuel 23:17
Fear not: for the hand of my father, Saul, shall not find thee, and thou shalt reign over Israel, and I shall be next to thee; yea and my father knoweth this.

1 Samuel 26:23
And the Lord will reward every one according to his justice, and his faithfulness: for the Lord hath delivered thee this day into my hand, and I would not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed.

1 Samuel 26:25
Then Saul said to David: Blessed art thou, my son David: and truly doing thou shalt do, and prevailing thou shalt prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

Psalm 18:20
And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

1 Samuel 24:18
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