And 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. 1Sa 28:3Deu 34:8Num 20:292Ch 33:20Act 8:2Gen 21:21Num 10:121Ki 2:34
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. 1 1Sa 23:24Gen 38:13Jos 15:55Luk 16:19-251Sa 30:52Sa 13:23-242Sa 19:32Gen 13:2 Now 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. Pro 14:1Isa 32:5-7Pro 31:10Pro 31:30-31Psa 10:31Sa 25:17Pro 31:261Sa 25:10-11
¶ And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. 2Sa 13:23Gen 38:13 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: 2 1Sa 17:22Gen 43:23 And 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. 1Ch 12:18Psa 122:71Ti 5:6Luk 10:52Th 3:16Jhn 14:27Mat 10:12-131Th 3:8 And 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. 3 1Sa 25:211Sa 25:15-161Sa 22:2Isa 11:6-9Luk 3:14Php 2:15Php 4:8 Ask 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. Est 9:19Neh 8:10-121Sa 24:111Sa 3:6Ecc 11:2Est 9:22Luk 11:41Luk 14:12-14 And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. 4 2Ch 14:72Ki 2:15Gen 8:4
¶ 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. Jdg 9:281Ki 12:161Sa 20:301Sa 22:21Sa 22:7-82Sa 20:1Ecc 7:10Exo 5:2 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? 5 Jdg 8:6Gal 6:101Pe 4:91Sa 24:131Sa 25:14-151Sa 25:32Co 6:9Deu 8:17
So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings. 2Sa 24:13Heb 13:17Isa 36:21-22 And 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. 1Sa 23:131Sa 24:5-61Sa 30:21-241Sa 30:9-10Jas 1:19-20Jos 9:14Pro 14:29Pro 19:11
¶ 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. 6 1Sa 13:10Mrk 15:29 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: 7 1Sa 25:211Sa 25:7Php 2:15 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. Job 1:10Exo 14:22Zec 2:5Jer 15:20 Now 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. 1Sa 20:7Deu 13:131Ki 21:101Ki 21:131Sa 2:121Sa 20:32-331Sa 20:91Sa 25:25
¶ 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. 8 2Sa 16:1Mat 5:25Pro 18:16Pro 6:4-51Ch 12:401Sa 25:342Sa 17:28-29Gen 32:13-20 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. Gen 32:20Gen 32:16Pro 31:11-12Pro 31:27 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. 2Ki 4:24 Now 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. Pro 17:13Eph 4:26Eph 4:31Rom 12:211Pe 2:20-231Pe 3:171Th 5:151Pe 3:9 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. 1Ki 14:101Sa 20:131Sa 3:171Ki 21:211Ki 16:111Sa 14:441Sa 20:162Ki 9:8 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, 1Sa 20:41Jdg 1:14Jos 15:181Sa 24:8 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. 9 1Sa 25:282Sa 14:9Est 8:32Ki 4:37Phm 1:18-192Sa 14:12Gen 44:18Gen 44:33-34 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 thou didst send. 10 11 1Sa 25:17Mal 2:22Sa 13:331Sa 25:26Isa 42:25 Now 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. 12 2Sa 18:32Rom 12:19-20Gen 20:61Sa 25:33-34Dan 4:19Heb 10:30Psa 18:47-48Psa 44:3 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. 13 14 1Sa 30:26Gen 33:112Ki 5:151Sa 25:422Co 9:52Sa 16:2Jdg 4:10 I 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. 1Sa 18:172Sa 7:111Ch 17:251Sa 24:111Ch 17:101Ki 9:52Sa 7:161Ki 15:5 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 thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling. 15 Jhn 17:21Mal 3:17Mat 10:29-30Psa 116:151Pe 1:51Sa 2:9Jer 10:18Jhn 17:23 And 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; 1Sa 13:141Sa 15:281Sa 23:17Psa 89:20 That 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. 16 Gen 40:141Sa 25:33Rom 12:191Sa 24:151Sa 25:401Sa 26:232Sa 22:48Luk 23:42
¶ And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: Luk 1:68Exo 18:10Gen 24:27Psa 72:182Co 8:16Ezr 7:27Psa 41:12-13 And 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. 1Sa 25:26Pro 17:10Pro 25:12Pro 27:21Pro 28:23Pro 9:9Psa 141:51Sa 24:19 For 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. 1Sa 11:111Sa 25:181Sa 25:26Jos 10:6Jos 10:9 So 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. 1Sa 20:422Ki 5:19Gen 19:212Sa 15:9Job 34:19Luk 7:50Luk 8:48
¶ 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. 1Sa 25:191Th 5:7-82Sa 13:232Sa 13:28Pro 20:1Mat 10:16Rom 13:131Ki 20:16 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. 1Sa 25:221Sa 25:34Deu 28:28Job 15:21-22Pro 23:29-35 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died. 1Sa 25:331Sa 26:101Sa 6:92Ch 10:152Ki 15:52Ki 19:352Sa 6:7Act 12:23
¶ And 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. 1Sa 25:261Sa 25:34Pro 22:231Ki 2:441Sa 24:151Sa 25:32Psa 7:161Th 5:23 And 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. Gen 24:51Gen 24:37-38 And 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. 1Ti 5:10Jhn 13:3-5Rut 2:10Gen 18:4Pro 15:33Pro 18:12Rut 2:13 And 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. 17 Gen 24:61-67Psa 45:10-11 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. 1Sa 27:31Sa 30:5Jos 15:562Sa 3:22Sa 5:13-16Gen 2:24Mat 19:5Mat 19:8
¶ But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim. 18 1Sa 18:272Sa 3:141Sa 18:20Isa 10:30