1 Samuel 25:32-35

David's favourable answer

32. Blessed be the Lord David rightly recognises that the intervention of Providence has saved him from a foolish and wicked revenge. Compare his prayer in Psalms 19:13. There is no lack of faults in David's life, and this outburst of passion was one of them; but with all his faults he had that spirit of genuine repentance which makes it possible for men

"To rise on stepping-stones

Of their dead selves to higher things."