1 Samuel 25

1Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.Cross-references: Gen 14:6 · Gen 21:21 · Gen 50:11 · Num 10:12 · Num 12:16 · Num 13:3 · +10 more

2There 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.Cross-references: Gen 13:2 · Gen 26:13 · Gen 38:13 · Josh 15:55 · 1Sam 23:24 · 1Sam 30:5 · +7 more

3Now 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.Cross-references: Josh 15:13 · 1Sam 25:10 · 1Sam 25:17 · 1Sam 30:14 · Ps 10:3 · Prov 14:1 · +4 more

4David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.Cross-references: Gen 38:13 · 2Sam 13:23

5David 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.Cross-references: Gen 43:23 · 1Sam 17:22

6Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!Cross-references: 2Sam 18:28 · 1Chr 12:18 · Ps 122:7 · Matt 10:12 · Luke 10:5 · John 14:27 · +3 more

7Now 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 22:2 · 1Sam 25:15 · 1Sam 25:21 · Isa 11:6 · Luke 3:14 · Phil 2:15 · +1 more

8Ask 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.’”Cross-references: 1Sam 3:6 · 1Sam 24:11 · Neh 8:10 · Esth 9:19 · Esth 9:22 · Eccl 11:2 · +2 more

9When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal all those words in the name of David, and waited.Cross-references: Gen 8:4 · 2Ki 2:15 · 2Chr 14:7

10Nabal 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.Cross-references: Ex 5:2 · Judg 9:28 · 1Sam 20:30 · 1Sam 22:2 · 1Sam 22:7 · 2Sam 20:1 · +6 more

11Shall 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?”Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · Judg 8:6 · 1Sam 24:13 · 1Sam 25:3 · 1Sam 25:14 · Job 31:17 · +6 more

12So David’s young men turned on their way and went back, and came and told him all these words.Cross-references: 2Sam 24:13 · Isa 36:21 · Heb 13:17

13David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!” 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.Cross-references: Josh 9:14 · 1Sam 23:13 · 1Sam 24:5 · 1Sam 30:9 · 1Sam 30:21 · Prov 14:29 · +6 more

14But 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 13:10 · Mark 15:29

15But 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:7 · 1Sam 25:21 · Phil 2:15

16They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.Cross-references: Ex 14:22 · Job 1:10 · Jer 15:20 · Zech 2:5

17Now 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.”Cross-references: Deut 13:13 · Judg 19:22 · 1Sam 2:12 · 1Sam 20:7 · 1Sam 20:9 · 1Sam 20:32 · +8 more

18Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.Cross-references: Gen 32:13 · Gen 43:11 · Num 16:46 · 1Sam 25:34 · 2Sam 16:1 · 2Sam 17:28 · +5 more

19She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.Cross-references: Gen 32:16 · Gen 32:20 · Prov 31:11 · Prov 31:27

20As 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 4:24

21Now 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.Cross-references: Gen 44:4 · 1Sam 25:13 · Job 30:8 · Ps 35:12 · Ps 37:8 · Ps 38:20 · +10 more

22God 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.”Cross-references: Ruth 1:17 · 1Sam 3:17 · 1Sam 14:44 · 1Sam 20:13 · 1Sam 20:16 · 1Ki 14:10 · +3 more

23When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off her donkey, and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the ground.Cross-references: Josh 15:18 · Judg 1:14 · 1Sam 20:41 · 1Sam 24:8

24She 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.Cross-references: Gen 44:18 · Gen 44:33 · 1Sam 25:28 · 2Sam 14:9 · 2Sam 14:12 · 2Ki 4:37 · +3 more

25Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:17 · 1Sam 25:26 · 2Sam 13:33 · Isa 42:25 · Mal 2:2

26Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, since Yahweh 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.Cross-references: Gen 20:6 · 1Sam 1:26 · 1Sam 22:3 · 1Sam 25:33 · 2Sam 18:32 · 2Ki 2:2 · +7 more

27Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.Cross-references: Gen 33:11 · Judg 4:10 · 1Sam 25:42 · 1Sam 30:26 · 2Sam 16:2 · 2Ki 5:15 · +1 more

28Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:28 · 1Sam 17:47 · 1Sam 18:17 · 1Sam 24:6 · 1Sam 24:11 · 1Sam 24:17 · +16 more

29Though 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 Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Deut 33:29 · 1Sam 2:9 · Ps 66:9 · Ps 116:15 · Jer 10:18 · +8 more

30It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,Cross-references: 1Sam 13:14 · 1Sam 15:28 · 1Sam 23:17 · Ps 89:20

31that 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 Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”Cross-references: Gen 40:14 · 1Sam 24:15 · 1Sam 25:33 · 1Sam 25:40 · 1Sam 26:23 · 2Sam 22:48 · +6 more

32David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!Cross-references: Gen 24:27 · Ex 18:10 · Ezra 7:27 · Ps 41:12 · Ps 72:18 · Luke 1:68 · +1 more

33Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.Cross-references: 1Sam 24:19 · 1Sam 25:26 · 1Sam 25:31 · 1Sam 26:9 · Ps 141:5 · Prov 9:9 · +4 more

34For indeed, as Yahweh 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.”Cross-references: Josh 10:6 · Josh 10:9 · 1Sam 11:11 · 1Sam 25:18 · 1Sam 25:26

35So 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.”Cross-references: Gen 19:21 · 1Sam 20:42 · 2Sam 15:9 · 2Ki 5:19 · Job 34:19 · Luke 7:50 · +1 more

36Abigail 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 25:19 · 2Sam 13:23 · 2Sam 13:28 · 1Ki 20:16 · Esth 1:3 · Ps 112:5 · +19 more

37In 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.Cross-references: Deut 28:28 · 1Sam 25:22 · 1Sam 25:34 · Job 15:21 · Prov 23:29

38About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.Cross-references: Ex 12:29 · 1Sam 6:9 · 1Sam 25:33 · 1Sam 26:10 · 2Sam 6:7 · 2Ki 15:5 · +3 more

39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.Cross-references: Judg 5:2 · 1Sam 24:15 · 1Sam 25:26 · 1Sam 25:32 · 1Sam 25:34 · 2Sam 3:28 · +18 more

40When 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.”Cross-references: Gen 24:37 · Gen 24:51

41She 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.”Cross-references: Gen 18:4 · Ruth 2:10 · Ruth 2:13 · Prov 15:33 · Prov 18:12 · John 13:3 · +1 more

42Abigail 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.Cross-references: Gen 24:61 · Ps 45:10

43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.Cross-references: Gen 2:24 · Josh 15:56 · 1Sam 27:3 · 1Sam 30:5 · 2Sam 3:2 · 2Sam 5:13 · +2 more

44Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.Cross-references: 1Sam 18:20 · 1Sam 18:27 · 2Sam 3:14 · Isa 10:30