1Samuel 25
25And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.H8050H4191H3478H6908H5594H6912H1004H7414H1732H6965H3381H4057H62902And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. / possessions: or, businessH376H4584H4639H3760H376H3966H1419H7969H505H6629H505H5795H1494H6629H37603Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.H8034H376H5037H8034H802H26H802H2896H7922H3303H8389H376H7186H7451H4611H36144And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.H1732H8085H4057H5037H1494H66295And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: / greet…: Heb. ask him in my name of peaceH1732H7971H6235H5288H1732H559H5288H5927H3760H935H5037H7592H7965H80346And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.H559H2416H7965H7965H1004H79657And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. / hurt: Heb. shamedH8085H1494H7462H3637H3972H6485H3117H37608Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.H7592H5288H5046H5288H4672H2580H5869H935H2896H3117H5414H4672H3027H5650H1121H17329And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. / ceased: Heb. restedH1732H5288H935H1696H5037H1697H8034H1732H511710And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.H5037H6030H1732H5650H559H1732H1121H3448H7231H5650H3117H6555H376H6440H11311Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be? / flesh: Heb. slaughterH3947H3899H4325H2878H2873H1494H5414H582H304512So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.H1732H5288H2015H1870H7725H935H5046H169713And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.H1732H559H582H2296H376H2719H2296H376H2719H1732H2296H2719H5927H310H1732H702H3967H376H3967H3427H362714But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. / railed…: Heb. flew upon themH259H5288H5046H26H5037H802H559H1732H7971H4397H4057H1288H113H586015But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: / hurt: Heb. shamedH582H3966H2896H3637H6485H3972H3117H1980H770416They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.H2346H3915H3119H3117H7462H662917Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.H3045H7200H6213H7451H3615H113H1004H1121H1100H169618Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. / clusters: or, lumpsH26H4116H3947H3967H3899H8147H5035H3196H2568H6629H6213H2568H5429H7039H3967H6778H3967H1690H7760H254319And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.H559H5288H5674H6440H935H310H5046H376H503720And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.H7392H2543H3381H5643H2022H1732H582H3381H7125H629821Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.H1732H559H8267H8104H2088H4057H3972H6485H7725H7451H289622So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.H3541H3254H6213H430H341H1732H7604H5704H1242H216H8366H702323And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,H26H7200H1732H4116H3381H2543H5307H639H1732H6440H7812H77624And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid. / audience: Heb. earsH5307H7272H559H113H5771H519H1696H241H8085H1697H58925Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. / regard: Heb. lay it to his heart / Nabal: that is, FoolH7760H113H3820H376H1100H5037H8034H5037H8034H5039H519H7200H5288H113H797126Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. / avenging…: Heb. saving thyselfH113H3068H2416H5315H2416H3068H4513H935H1818H3467H3027H341H1245H7451H113H503727And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. / blessing: or, present / follow…: Heb. walk at the feet of, etcH1293H8198H935H113H5414H5288H1980H7272H11328I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.H5375H6588H519H3068H6213H6213H113H539H1004H113H3898H4421H3068H7451H4672H311729Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling. / as out…: Heb. in the midst of the bought of a slingH120H6965H7291H1245H5315H5315H113H6887H6872H2416H3068H430H5315H341H7049H8432H3709H705030And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;H3068H6213H113H2896H1696H6680H5057H347831That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid. / no grief: Heb. no staggering, or, stumblingH6330H4383H3820H113H8210H1818H2600H113H3467H3068H3190H113H2142H51932And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:H1732H559H26H1288H3068H430H3478H7971H3117H712533And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.H1288H2940H1288H3607H3117H935H1818H3467H302734For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.H199H3068H430H3478H2416H4513H7489H3884H4116H935H7125H3498H5037H1242H216H8366H702335So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.H1732H3947H3027H935H559H5927H7965H1004H7200H8085H6963H5375H644036And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.H26H935H5037H4960H1004H4960H4428H5037H3820H2896H3966H7910H5046H1697H6996H1419H1242H21637But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.H1242H3196H3318H5037H802H5046H1697H3820H4191H7130H6838And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.H6235H3117H3068H5062H5037H419139And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.H1732H8085H5037H4191H559H1288H3068H7378H7379H2781H3027H5037H2820H5650H7451H3068H7725H7451H5037H7218H1732H7971H1696H26H3947H80240And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.H5650H1732H935H26H3760H1696H559H1732H7971H3947H80241And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.H6965H7812H639H776H559H519H8198H7364H7272H5650H11342And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. / after her: Heb. at her feetH26H4116H6965H7392H2543H2568H5291H1980H7272H3212H310H4397H1732H80243David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.H1732H3947H293H3157H8147H80244But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.H7586H5414H4324H1323H1732H802H6406H1121H3919H1554
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