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1SA-25:1 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-25:2 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.

1SA-25:3 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.

1SA-25:4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear

his sheep.

1SA-25:5 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:

1SA-25:6 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.

1SA-25:7 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.

1SA-25:8 Ask thy young men, and they will show 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.

1SA-25:9 And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal

according to

all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

1SA-25:10 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.

1SA-25:11 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]?

1SA-25:12 So David's young men turned their way, and went again,

and came and

told him all those sayings.

1SA-25:13 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-25:14 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.

1SA-25:15 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:

1SA-25:16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all

the while we

were with them keeping the sheep.

1SA-25:17 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-25:18 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.

1SA-25:19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me;

behold, I come

after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

1SA-25:20 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.

1SA-25:21 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.

1SA-25:22 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.

1SA-25:23 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-25:24 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.

1SA-25:25 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.

1SA-25:26 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.

1SA-25:27 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.

1SA-25:28 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-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 thy God;

and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as

out] of the

middle of a sling.

1SA-25:30 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-25:31 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.

1SA-25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God

of Israel,

which sent thee this day to meet me:

1SA-25:33 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-25:34 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-25:35 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-25:36 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-25:37 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-25:38 And it came to pass about ten days [after], that the

LORD smote

Nabal, that he died.

1SA-25:39 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-25:40 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.

1SA-25:41 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.

1SA-25:42 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.

1SA-25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were

also both of them

his wives.

1SA-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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