Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. 1Sa 28:3Deu 34:8Num 20:292Ch 33:20Act 8:2Gen 21:21Num 10:121Ki 2:34
Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. There was a man in Maon whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. 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. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. 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 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. 2Sa 13:23Gen 38:13 David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name. 1Sa 17:22Gen 43:23 Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have! 1Ch 12:18Psa 122:71Ti 5:6Luk 10:52Th 3:16Jhn 14:27Mat 10:12-131Th 3:8 Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel. 1Sa 25:211Sa 25:15-161Sa 22:2Isa 11:6-9Luk 3:14Php 2:15Php 4:8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand to your servants and to your son David.’” Est 9:19Neh 8:10-121Sa 24:111Sa 3:6Ecc 11:2Est 9:22Luk 11:41Luk 14:12-14
When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited. 2Ch 14:72Ki 2:15Gen 8:4
Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days. Jdg 9:281Ki 12:161Sa 20:301Sa 22:21Sa 22:7-82Sa 20:1Ecc 7:10Exo 5:2 Shall I then take my bread, my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don’t know where they come from?” Jdg 8:6Gal 6:101Pe 4:91Sa 24:131Sa 25:14-151Sa 25:32Co 6:9Deu 8:17
So David’s young men turned on their way and went back, and came and told him all these words. 2Sa 24:13Heb 13:17Isa 36:21-22
David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!” 1Sa 23:131Sa 24:5-61Sa 30:21-241Sa 30:9-10Jas 1:19-20Jos 9:14Pro 14:29Pro 19:11
Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David, and two hundred stayed by the baggage.
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master; and he insulted them. 1Sa 13:10Mrk 15:29 But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields. 1Sa 25:211Sa 25:7Php 2:15 They were a wall to us both by night and by 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 you will do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.” 1Sa 20:7Deu 13:131Ki 21:101Ki 21:131Sa 2:121Sa 20:32-331Sa 20:91Sa 25:25
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs 1 of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. 2Sa 16:1Mat 5:25Pro 18:16Pro 6:4-51Ch 12:401Sa 25:342Sa 17:28-29Gen 32:13-20 She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal. Gen 32:20Gen 32:16Pro 31:11-12Pro 31:27 As she rode on her donkey, and came down hidden by the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them. 2Ki 4:24
Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good. Pro 17:13Eph 4:26Eph 4:31Rom 12:211Pe 2:20-231Pe 3:171Th 5:151Pe 3:9 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.” 2 1Ki 14:101Sa 20:131Sa 3:171Ki 21:211Ki 16:111Sa 14:441Sa 20:162Ki 9:8
When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the ground. 1Sa 20:41Jdg 1:14Jos 15:181Sa 24:8 She fell at his feet and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant. 1Sa 25:282Sa 14:9Est 8:32Ki 4:37Phm 1:18-192Sa 14:12Gen 44:18Gen 44:33-34 Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal 3 is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent. 1Sa 25:17Mal 2:22Sa 13:331Sa 25:26Isa 42:25 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, since the LORD has withheld you from blood guiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil to my lord be as Nabal. 2Sa 18:32Rom 12:19-20Gen 20:61Sa 25:33-34Dan 4:19Heb 10:30Psa 18:47-48Psa 44:3 Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. 1Sa 30:26Gen 33:112Ki 5:151Sa 25:422Co 9:52Sa 16:2Jdg 4:10 Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the LORD’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days. 1Sa 18:172Sa 7:111Ch 17:251Sa 24:111Ch 17:101Ki 9:52Sa 7:161Ki 15:5 Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket. Jhn 17:21Mal 3:17Mat 10:29-30Psa 116:151Pe 1:51Sa 2:9Jer 10:18Jhn 17:23 It will come to pass, when the LORD has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel, 1Sa 13:141Sa 15:281Sa 23:17Psa 89:20 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.” Gen 40:141Sa 25:33Rom 12:191Sa 24:151Sa 25:401Sa 26:232Sa 22:48Luk 23:42
David said to Abigail, “Blessed is the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me! Luk 1:68Exo 18:10Gen 24:27Psa 72:182Co 8:16Ezr 7:27Psa 41:12-13 Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand. 1Sa 25:26Pro 17:10Pro 25:12Pro 27:21Pro 28:23Pro 9:9Psa 141:51Sa 24:19 For indeed, as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.” 4 1Sa 11:111Sa 25:181Sa 25:26Jos 10:6Jos 10:9
So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice and have granted your request.” 1Sa 20:422Ki 5:19Gen 19:212Sa 15:9Job 34:19Luk 7:50Luk 8:48
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light. 1Sa 25:191Th 5:7-82Sa 13:232Sa 13:28Pro 20:1Mat 10:16Rom 13:131Ki 20:16 In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 1Sa 25:221Sa 25:34Deu 28:28Job 15:21-22Pro 23:29-35 About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal, so that he died. 1Sa 25:331Sa 26:101Sa 6:92Ch 10:152Ki 15:52Ki 19:352Sa 6:7Act 12:23 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. The LORD has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” 1Sa 25:261Sa 25:34Pro 22:231Ki 2:441Sa 24:151Sa 25:32Psa 7:161Th 5:23
David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife. When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.” Gen 24:51Gen 24:37-38
She arose and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is 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 Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey with her five maids who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. Gen 24:61-67Psa 45:10-11 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives. 1Sa 27:31Sa 30:5Jos 15:562Sa 3:22Sa 5:13-16Gen 2:24Mat 19:5Mat 19:8
Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. 1Sa 18:272Sa 3:141Sa 18:20Isa 10:30