1 Samuel 25:34

For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth ,.... An oath for the confirmation of what he was about to say:

which hath kept me back from hurting thee : from doing any ill to her family, as he intended, though not to her person, his resolution being only to slay the males; but that would have been an hurt, an evil, an affliction to Abigail, from which the Lord in his providence restrained him, and that through her good advice:

except thou hadst hasted, and come to meet me : if she had not made quick dispatch in preparing her present, or had stayed to persuade her husband into her measures; if she had delayed a little longer, David would have been at Nabal's house, executing his vengeance on him and his:

surely there had not been left unto Nabal, by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall : See Gill on 1 Samuel 25:22 .