1 Samuel 24:17

Context
24:17 He said to David, “You are more innocent¹ than I, for you have treated me well, even though I have tried to harm you!

1 Samuel 24:2

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24:2 So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find² David and his men in the region of³ the rocks of the mountain goats.⁴

1 Samuel 20:11

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20:11 Jonathan said to David, “Come on. Let’s go out to the field.”

When the two of them had gone out into the field,

Psalms 35:12

Context

35:12 They repay me evil for the good I have done;⁵

I am overwhelmed with sorrow.⁶

Psalms 109:5

Context

109:5 They repay me evil for good,⁷

and hate for love.

Proverbs 17:13

Context

17:13 As for the one who repays⁸ evil for good,

evil will not leave⁹ his house.¹⁰

John 10:32

Context
10:32 Jesus said to them,¹¹ “I have shown you many good deeds¹² from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

[24:17] ¹tn Or “righteous” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NAB “you are in the right”; NLT “are a better man than I am.”

[24:2] ²tn Heb “to search [for].”

[24:2] ³tn Heb “upon the face of.”

[24:2] ⁴tn Or “the region of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats,” if this expression is understood as a place name (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV, TEV, CEV).

[35:12] ⁵tn Heb “they repay me evil instead of good.”

[35:12] ⁶tn Heb “[there is] bereavement to my soul.”

[109:5] ⁷tn Heb “and they set upon me evil in place of good.”

[17:13] ⁸tn The sentence begins with the participle מֵשִׁיב (meshiv, “the one who repays”). The whole first colon may be taken as an independent nominative absolute, with the formal sentence to follow. Some English versions have made the first colon a condition by supplying “if” (NAB, NIV, TEV, NLT).

[17:13] ⁹tn The verb מוּשׁ (mush) means “to depart; to remove.” The Kethib is a Hiphil, which would yield a meaning of “to take away”; so the Qere, which is the Qal, makes more sense in the line.

[17:13] ¹⁰sn The proverb does not explain whether God will turn evil back on him directly or whether people will begin to treat him as he treated others.

[10:32] ¹¹tn Grk “Jesus answered them.”

[10:32] ¹²tn Or “good works.”