לוּלֵא

Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

“As surely as God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops would have continued pursuing their brothers until morning.”

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

Unless the LORD of Hostshad left us a few survivors,we would have become like Sodom,we would have resembled Gomorrah.

So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen onestood before Him in the breachto divert His wrath from destroying them.