1Samuel 25:2-28 And 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. Now the name of the man was Nabal. And the name of his wife Abigail.(not synonymous with the Abigail who was a sister of king David:.1Chronicles 2:15,16). 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. And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. And 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. And thus shall you say to him that lives in prosperity, Peace be both to you and peace be to your house and peace be unto all that you have. And now I have heard that you have shearers. Now your shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there anything missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. Ask your young men and they will show you. Wherefore let the young men find favor in your eyes. For we come in a good day. Give, I pray thee, whatsoever comes to thine hand unto thy servants and to thy son David. And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David. And 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. Shall 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 come from? So David's young men turned their way and went again and came and told him all those sayings. And David said unto his men, Gird you 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. But 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. But 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. They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. Now therefore know and consider what you will 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. Then 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. And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. And 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. Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him. And he has requited me evil for good. So 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. And when Abigail saw David, she hasted and lighted off the ass.(got off the donkey).and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the ground and 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.(let me speak to you what I want to say and please hear my words). Let 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 you did send. Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, seeing the Lord has withholden you from coming to shed blood and from avenging yourself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. And now this blessing which thine handmaid has brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid.('thine handmaid' means, I'm at your service or I'm here to be accommodative). For the Lord will certainly make my lord.(referring to David to whom she had allegiance).a sure house because my lord fights the battles of the Lord and evil has not been found in you all your days.

1Samuel 25:29 Yet 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 your God and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

1Samuel 25:30-36 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and shall have appointed you ruler over Israel; That this shall be no grief unto you, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that you have shed blood causeless or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid. And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me. And blessed.(original 'thank you').be your advice and blessed be you, which has kept me this day from coming to shed blood and from avenging myself with mine own hand. For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel lives, which has kept me back from hurting you, except you had hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisses against the wall. So David received of her hand that which she had brought him and said unto her, Go up in peace to your house. I have hearkened to your voice and have accepted your person.(original for."thy person" is."you"; properly translated."you"). And 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.

1Samuel 25:37,38 But 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.(he was terrified that David was coming for him). And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died..1Samuel 2:6)

1Samuel 25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed.(original 'thank you').be the Lord, that has pleaded.(original 'took over for'; God looked after it for David).the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept his servant from evil, for the Lord has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

1Samuel 25:40-42 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke unto her, saying, David sent us unto you, to take you to him to wife. And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth and said, Behold, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. And Abigail hasted and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that followed her and she went after the messengers of David and became his wife.

1Samuel 25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel and they were also both of them his wives.

1Samuel 25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
 

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