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1Samuel 25
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25Samuel died and all Israel assembled to mourn for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. David got up and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.H8050H4191H3478H6908H5594H6912H1004H7414H1732H6965H3381H4057H6290
2Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel of Judah, and the man was very rich. He had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.H376H4584H4639H3760H376H3966H1419H7969H505H6629H505H5795H1494H6629H3760
3The man's name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail. The woman was intelligent and beautiful, while the man was harsh and wicked in his dealings. He was a descendant of Caleb.H8034H376H5037H8034H802H26H802H2896H7922H3303H8389H376H7186H7451H4611H3614
4While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep.H1732H8085H4057H5037H1494H6629
5David sent ten young men, saying to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, find Nabal, and greet him in my name.H1732H7971H6235H5288H1732H559H5288H5927H3760H935H5037H7592H7965H8034
6Then say, 'May you live long. Peace to you, peace to your family, and peace to all that you have.H559H2416H7965H7965H1004H7965
7Now, I've heard that the sheep shearers are with you. Now, your shepherds have been with us. We didn't harm them, and they didn't miss anything all the time they were in Carmel.H8085H1494H7462H3637H3972H6485H3117H3760
8Ask your young men and they'll tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor with you since we came on a special day. Please give whatever you have available to your servants and to your son David.'"H7592H5288H5046H5288H4672H2580H5869H935H2896H3117H5414H4672H3027H5650H1121H1732
9David's young men came to Nabal and told him all this in David's name, and then they waited.H1732H5288H935H1696H5037H1697H8034H1732H5117
10Nabal answered David's servants: "Who is David?Who is this son of Jesse?There are many servants today who are breaking away from their masters.H5037H6030H1732H5650H559H1732H1121H3448H7231H5650H3117H6555H376H6440H113
11Should I take my food, my water, and my meat that I've slaughtered for my shearers and give it to men who came from who knows where?"H3947H3899H4325H2878H2873H1494H5414H582H3045
12David's men turned and went on their way. They came back and told David everything.H1732H5288H2015H1870H7725H935H5046H1697
13David said to his men, "Put on your swords." They put on their swords, and David put on his sword. Then about 400 men followed David, while 200 stayed with the supplies.H1732H559H582H2296H376H2719H2296H376H2719H1732H2296H2719H5927H310H1732H702H3967H376H3967H3427H3627
14Now, one of the young men told Nabal's wife Abigail: "Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our lord, but he screamed insults at them.H259H5288H5046H26H5037H802H559H1732H7971H4397H4057H1288H113H5860
15The men were very good to us. They didn't harm us, and we didn't miss anything all the time we moved around with them when we were in the field.H582H3966H2896H3637H6485H3972H3117H1980H7704
16They were a wall around us both day and night, all the time we were with them taking care of the sheep.H2346H3915H3119H3117H7462H6629
17Now, be aware of this and consider what you should do. Calamity is being planned against our master and against his entire household. He's such a worthless person that no one can talk to him."H3045H7200H6213H7451H3615H113H1004H1121H1100H1696
18Abigail quickly took 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five measures of roasted grain, 100 bunches of raisins, and 200 fig cakes and loaded them on donkeys.H26H4116H3947H3967H3899H8147H5035H3196H2568H6629H6213H2568H5429H7039H3967H6778H3967H1690H7760H2543
19She said to her young men, "Go ahead of me, I'll be coming right behind you." But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.H559H5288H5674H6440H935H310H5046H376H5037
20She was riding on the donkey and as she went down a protected part of the mountain, David was there with his men, coming down to meet her, and she went toward them.H7392H2543H3381H5643H2022H1732H582H3381H7125H6298
21Now David had said, "Surely it was for nothing that I protected everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness, and nothing was missing of all that belonged to him. But he has repaid me with evil for good!H1732H559H8267H8104H2088H4057H3972H6485H7725H7451H2896
22May the Lord do this to the enemies of David - and more also - if by the morning I've left alive a single male of all those who belong to him."H3541H3254H6213H430H341H1732H7604H5704H1242H216H8366H7023
23When Abigail saw David, she quickly got down from the donkey and fell on her face before David, prostrating herself on the ground.H26H7200H1732H4116H3381H2543H5307H639H1732H6440H7812H776
24She fell at his feet and pleaded, "Your majesty, let the guilt be on me alone, and please let your servant speak to you. Listen to the words of your servant.H5307H7272H559H113H5771H519H1696H241H8085H1697H589
25Please, your majesty, don't pay attention to this worthless man Nabal, for he's just like his name. Nabal is his name and folly is his constant companion. But I, your servant, didn't see your majesty's young men whom you sent.H7760H113H3820H376H1100H5037H8034H5037H8034H5039H519H7200H5288H113H7971
26Now, your majesty, as the Lord lives and as you live, the Lord has kept you from shedding blood and from delivering yourself by your own actions. Now, may your enemies and those seeking to do evil to your majesty be like Nabal.H113H3068H2416H5315H2416H3068H4513H935H1818H3467H3027H341H1245H7451H113H5037
27Now let this present that your servant has brought to your majesty be given to the young men who follow your majesty.H1293H8198H935H113H5414H5288H1980H7272H113
28Please forgive the offense of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make a strong dynasty for your majesty, for your majesty is fighting the Lord's battles. May evil not be found in you for all of your life.H5375H6588H519H3068H6213H6213H113H539H1004H113H3898H4421H3068H7451H4672H3117
29If anyone should arise to pursue you and seek your life, may the life of your majesty be bound up with the Lord your God in a bundle of the living, and may he sling out the lives of your enemies from the pocket of a sling.H120H6965H7291H1245H5315H5315H113H6887H6872H2416H3068H430H5315H341H7049H8432H3709H7050
30When the Lord does for your majesty all the good that he promised concerning you and appoints you commander-in-chief over Israel,H3068H6213H113H2896H1696H6680H5057H3478
31this shouldn't be an obstacle or stumbling block for your majesty's conscience, that he poured out blood without cause or that your majesty delivered himself. When the Lord does good things for your majesty, remember your servant."H6330H4383H3820H113H8210H1818H2600H113H3467H3068H3190H113H2142H519
32David said to Abigail, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today.H1732H559H26H1288H3068H430H3478H7971H3117H7125
33Blessed be your good judgment, and blessed be you, who today stopped me from shedding blood and delivering myself by my own actions.H1288H2940H1288H3607H3117H935H1818H3467H3027
34For as surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, the one who restrained me from harming you - indeed, had you not quickly come to meet me, by dawn there wouldn't be a single male left to Nabal."H199H3068H430H3478H2416H4513H7489H3884H4116H935H7125H3498H5037H1242H216H8366H7023
35David took from her what she had brought him and said to her, "Go up to your house in peace. Look, I've heard your request and will grant it."H1732H3947H3027H935H559H5927H7965H1004H7200H8085H6963H5375H6440
36Abigail returned to Nabal, and he was there in his house holding a feast like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was glad, and he was very drunk, so she didn't tell him anything at all until morning.H26H935H5037H4960H1004H4960H4428H5037H3820H2896H3966H7910H5046H1697H6996H1419H1242H216
37After Nabal became sober the next morning, his wife told him all that had happened. Nabal's heart failed and he became paralyzed.H1242H3196H3318H5037H802H5046H1697H3820H4191H7130H68
38About ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.36H6235H3117H3068H5062H5037H4191
39When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, "Blessed be the Lord who has judged the dispute over my insult at the hand of Nabal, and has held back his servant from evil. The Lord has repaid Nabal's wickedness." Then David sent word to Abigail that he would take her as his wife.H1732H8085H5037H4191H559H1288H3068H7378H7379H2781H3027H5037H2820H5650H7451H3068H7725H7451H5037H7218H1732H7971H1696H26H3947H802
40David's servants went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, "David sent us to you to take you to him as his wife."25H5650H1732H935H26H3760H1696H559H1732H7971H3947H802
41She got up, prostrated herself face down on the ground, and replied, "Your servant would be a slave to wash the feet of your majesty's servants."H6965H7812H639H776H559H519H8198H7364H7272H5650H113
42Then Abigail quickly got up and got on a donkey, with five young women walking behind her. She followed David's messengers, and she became his wife.H26H4116H6965H7392H2543H2568H5291H1980H7272H3212H310H4397H1732H802
43David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives.H1732H3947H293H3157H8147H802
44Meanwhile, Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Laish's son Palti from Gallim.H7586H5414H4324H1323H1732H802H6406H1121H3919H1554


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