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.
A.M.
1 Samuel 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried …
lamented
Genesis 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning …
Numbers 20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned …
Deuteronomy 34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty …
Acts 8:2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation …
in this house
1 Samuel 7:17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he …
1 Kings 2:34 So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell on him, and slew …
2 Chronicles 33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own …
Isaiah 14:18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every …
the wilderness
Genesis 14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 21:21 And he dwelled in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him …
Numbers 10:12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness …
Numbers 12:16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the …
Numbers 13:3,26 And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness …
Psalm 120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
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.
Maon
1 Samuel 23:24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men …
possessions were. or, business was.
Carmel Not the famous mount Carmel, in the north of Canaan, and in the tribe of Asher; but a city, on a mountain of the same name, in the south of Judah, which seems to have given name to the surrounding territory. Eusebius and Jerome inform us, that there was in their time a town called Carmelia, ten miles east from Hebron, where the Romans kept a Garrison, whose position well agree with this Carmel.
man
Genesis 26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
2 Samuel 19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and …
Psalm 17:14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which …
Psalm 73:3-7 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked…
Luke 16:19-25 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
three thousand
Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Job 1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, …
Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: …
shearing This was a very ancient custom, and appears to have been always attended with festivity. The ancient Romans, however, used to pluck off the wool from the sheep's backs; and hence a fleece was called vellus, a vellendo, from plucking it off. Pliny says, that in his time sheep were not shorn every where, but in some places the wool was still plucked off.
Genesis 38:13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold your father in law goes up …
2 Samuel 13:23,24 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheep …
Carmel
1 Samuel 30:5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, …
Joshua 15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
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.
good
Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down …
Proverbs 31:26,30,31 She opens her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness…
was churlish
1 Samuel 25:10,11,17 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and …
Psalm 10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, …
Isaiah 32:5-7 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said …
and he was {Wehoo calibbee} literally, `and he was a Calebite;' but as the word {cailev} signifies {a dog}, the Septuagint has understood it as implying a man of {canine disposition}, and translated it, (), `and he was a doggish man.' It is understood in the same way by the Syriac and Arabic.
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 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.
liveth
1 Thessalonians 3:8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:6 But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
Peace be both
2 Samuel 18:28 And Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, All is well. And he fell …
1 Chronicles 12:18 Then the spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and …
Psalm 122:7 Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.
Matthew 10:12,13 And when you come into an house, salute it…
Luke 10:5 And into whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world …
2 Thessalonians 3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. …
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.
thy shepherds In those times, and at the present day, wandering Arabs, under their several chiefs, think that they have a right to exact contributions of provisions, etc. wherever they come. But David, though he lived in the wilderness like the Arab emirs, had not adopted their manners: one of them, at the head of
We hurt [heb] we shamed
1 Samuel 25:15,16,21 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed …
1 Samuel 22:2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, …
Isaiah 11:6-9 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie …
Luke 3:14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall …
Philippians 2:15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without …
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are …
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.
a good day
Nehemiah 8:10-12 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, …
Esther 9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelled in the unwalled towns…
Ecclesiastes 11:2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what …
Luke 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all …
Luke 14:12-14 Then said he also to him that bade him, When you make a dinner or …
thy son
1 Samuel 3:6 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went …
1 Samuel 24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: …
And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
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.
Who is David
1 Samuel 20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, …
1 Samuel 22:7,8 Then Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites…
Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to …
Judges 9:28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, …
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
1 Kings 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king listened not to them, the people …
Psalm 73:7,8 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish…
Psalm 123:3,4 Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us: for we are exceedingly …
Isaiah 32:5,7 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said …
there be
1 Samuel 22:2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, …
Ecclesiastes 7:10 Say not you, What is the cause that the former days were better than …
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?
Shall I then
1 Samuel 25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: …
1 Samuel 24:13 As said the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceeds from the …
Deuteronomy 8:17 And you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has …
Judges 8:6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna …
Job 31:17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof;
Psalm 73:7,8 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish…
1 Peter 4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
flesh [heb] slaughter
give it
Ecclesiastes 11:1,2 Cast your bread on the waters: for you shall find it after many days…
Galatians 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially …
whom
1 Samuel 25:14,15 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, …
John 9:29,30 We know that God spoke to Moses: as for this fellow, we know not …
2 Corinthians 6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as …
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 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.
Gird ye
Joshua 9:14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the …
Proverbs 14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is …
Proverbs 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules …
Proverbs 19:2,11 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he …
Proverbs 25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest you know not what to do in the …
James 1:19,20 Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to …
David also
1 Samuel 24:5,6 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because …
Romans 12:19-21 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: …
two hundred
1 Samuel 30:9,10,21-24 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and …
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 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.
evil
1 Samuel 20:7,9,33 If he say thus, It is well; your servant shall have peace: but if …
2 Chronicles 25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to …
Esther 7:7 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into …
a son of Belial
1 Samuel 25:25 Let not my lord, I pray you, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: …
1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
Deuteronomy 13:13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, …
Judges 19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the …
2 Samuel 23:6,7 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, …
1 Kings 21:10,13 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against …
2 Chronicles 13:7 And there are gathered to him vain men, the children of Belial, and …
that a man
1 Samuel 20:32,33 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why shall …
2 Kings 5:13,14 And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, …
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.
made haste
1 Samuel 25:34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, which has kept …
Numbers 16:46-48 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from …
Proverbs 6:4,5 Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids…
Matthew 5:25 Agree with your adversary quickly, whiles you are in the way with …
took two The Eastern bread is generally both thin and small; and answers to our cakes.
Genesis 32:13-20 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came …
Genesis 43:11-14 And their father Israel said to them, If it must be so now, do this; …
2 Samuel 17:28,29 Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, …
Proverbs 18:16 A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
Proverbs 21:14 A gift in secret pacifies anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
two bottles That is, two goatskins' full.
five sheep. Not one sheep to one hundred men.
clusters. [heb] lumps. Raisins dried in the sun.
2 Samuel 16:1 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba …
cakes of figs. Figs cured and then pressed together. Now all this provision was a matter of little worth; and had it been granted in the first instance, it would have perfectly satisfied David, and secured his good offices.
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 hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
Surely
1 Samuel 25:13 And David said to his men, Gird you on every man his sword. And they …
Job 30:8 They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were …
Psalm 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any wise to do evil.
Ephesians 4:26,31 Be you angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down on your wrath…
1 Thessalonians 5:15 See that none render evil for evil to any man; but ever follow that …
1 Peter 2:21-23 For even hereunto were you called: because Christ also suffered for …
1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise …
he hath requited
Genesis 44:4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph …
Psalm 35:12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
Psalm 38:20 They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I …
Psalm 109:3-5 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against …
Proverbs 17:13 Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Jeremiah 18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dig a pit for my …
Romans 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
1 Peter 2:20 For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you …
1 Peter 2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
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.
So and more. Nothing can justify this conduct of David, which was rash, unjust, and cruel in the extreme. David himself condemns it, and thanks God for being prevented from executing this evil.
1 Samuel 25:32-34 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which …
1 Samuel 3:17 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD has said to you? I pray …
1 Samuel 14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for you shall surely die, Jonathan.
1 Samuel 20:13,16 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father …
Ruth 1:17 Where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do …
if I leave
1 Samuel 25:34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, which has kept …
any that pisseth, etc. This seems to have been a proverbial expression among the Israelites; and may with the utmost propriety be read `any male.'
1 Kings 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and …
1 Kings 16:11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on …
1 Kings 21:21 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will take away your posterity, …
2 Kings 9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from …
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,
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.
fell
2 Kings 4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the …
Esther 8:3 And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet…
Matthew 18:29 And his fellow servant fell down at his feet, and sought him, saying, …
Upon
1 Samuel 25:28 I pray you, forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for the LORD will …
Genesis 44:33,34 Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant abide instead of the …
2 Samuel 14:9 And the woman of Tekoah said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity …
let thine
Genesis 44:18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh my lord, let your servant, …
2 Samuel 14:12 Then the woman said, Let your handmaid, I pray you, speak one word …
audience [heb] ears
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.
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.
as the Lord liveth
1 Samuel 25:34 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, which has kept …
1 Samuel 22:3 And David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of …
2 Kings 2:2 And Elijah said to Elisha, Tarry here, I pray you; for the LORD has …
2 Kings 4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to …
and as thy
1 Samuel 1:26 And she said, Oh my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman …
the Lord hath
1 Samuel 25:33 And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, which have kept me …
Genesis 20:6 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in …
from
Romans 12:19,20 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: …
avenging thyself [heb] saving thyself
Psalm 18:47,48 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me…
Psalm 44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither …
now let
2 Samuel 18:32 And the king said to Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi …
Jeremiah 29:22 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah …
Daniel 4:19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonished for one …
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.
blessing. or, present
1 Samuel 30:26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders …
Genesis 33:11 Take, I pray you, my blessing that is brought to you; because God …
2 Kings 5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, …
2 Corinthians 9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers, that they …
follow [heb] walk at the feet of
1 Samuel 25:42 And Abigail hurried, and arose and rode on an donkey, with five damsels …
Judges 4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with …
2 Samuel 16:2 And the king said to Ziba, What mean you by these? And Ziba said, …
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.
forgive
1 Samuel 25:24 And fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity …
the Lord
1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said to him, The LORD has rent the kingdom of Israel from …
2 Samuel 7:11,16,27 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people …
1 Kings 9:5 Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom on Israel for ever, …
1 Chronicles 17:10,25 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. …
Psalm 89:29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the …
fighteth
1 Samuel 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saves not with sword …
1 Samuel 18:17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will …
2 Samuel 5:2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, you were he that led …
2 Chronicles 20:15 And he said, Listen you, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, …
Ephesians 6:10,11 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might…
evil hath
1 Samuel 24:6,7,11,17 And he said to his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing …
1 Kings 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD…
Psalm 119:1-3 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD…
Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, …
Luke 23:41,47 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: …
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.
bound The metaphors in this verse are derived from the consideration, that things of value are collected together, and often tied up in bundles, like sheaves of corn, to prevent their being scattered and lost, and that whatever is put into a sling is not intended to be preserved, but to be thrown away.
1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent …
Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, …
Deuteronomy 33:19 They shall call the people to the mountain; there they shall offer …
Psalm 66:9 Which holds our soul in life, and suffers not our feet to be moved.
Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Malachi 3:17 And they shall be mine, said the LORD of hosts, in that day when …
Matthew 10:29,30 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not …
with the Lord
John 10:27-30 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me…
John 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: …
John 17:21,23 That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, …
Colossians 3:3,4 For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God…
1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation ready …
sling out
Jeremiah 10:18 For thus said the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants …
as out of the middle of a sling [heb] in the midst of the bow of a sling.
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;
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.
grief. [heb] staggering, or, stumbling
Proverbs 5:12,13 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof…
Romans 14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing …
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …
avenged
1 Samuel 25:33 And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, which have kept me …
1 Samuel 24:15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and you, and see, …
1 Samuel 26:23 The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; …
2 Samuel 22:48 It is God that avenges me, and that brings down the people under me.
Psalm 94:1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, …
Romans 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: …
remember
1 Samuel 25:40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they …
Genesis 40:14 But think on me when it shall be well with you, and show kindness, …
Luke 23:42 And he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.
And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
David overlooks the rich and seasonable present of Abigail, though pressed with hunger and wearied with travel; but her advice, which disarmed his rage, and calmed his revenge, draws forth these high and affectionate congratulations. These were his joyful and glorious trophies; not over his enemies, but over himself.
Genesis 24:27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who has …
Exodus 18:10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of …
Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which has put such a thing …
Psalm 41:12,13 And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your …
Psalm 72:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things.
Luke 1:68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he has visited and redeemed his people,
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.
blessed
Psalm 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove …
Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a …
Proverbs 17:10 A reproof enters more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.
Proverbs 25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise …
Proverbs 27:21 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man …
Proverbs 28:23 He that rebukes a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that …
which hast
1 Samuel 25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, …
avenging
1 Samuel 25:26,31 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, …
1 Samuel 24:19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? why the …
1 Samuel 26:9,10 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth …
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.
kept me back
1 Samuel 25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, …
hasted
1 Samuel 25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles …
1 Samuel 11:11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; …
Joshua 10:6,9 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, …
there had
1 Samuel 25:22 So and more also do God to the enemies of David…
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.
Go up
1 Samuel 20:42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, for as much as we have sworn …
2 Samuel 15:9 And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.
2 Kings 5:19 And he said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
Luke 7:50 And he said to the woman, Your faith has saved you; go in peace.
Luke 8:48 And he said to her, Daughter, be of good comfort: your faith has …
accepted
Genesis 19:21 And he said to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this thing …
Job 34:19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor …
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.
a feast
2 Samuel 13:23 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheep …
Esther 1:3-7 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast to all his princes …
Luke 14:12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When you make a dinner or …
merry
2 Samuel 13:28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when …
1 Kings 20:16 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk …
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived …
Proverbs 23:29-35 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? …
Ecclesiastes 2:2,3 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What does it…
Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers …
Isaiah 28:3,7,8 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet…
Jeremiah 51:57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, …
Daniel 5:1-5 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, …
Nahum 1:10 For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are …
Habakkuk 2:15,16 Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink, that put your bottle to …
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …
Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, …
Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
1 Thessalonians 5:7,8 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken …
she told him
1 Samuel 25:19 And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after …
Psalm 112:5 A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the middle of wolves: be you …
Ephesians 5:14 Why he said, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ …
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.
And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
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.
Blessed
1 Samuel 25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which …
Judges 5:2 Praise you the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly …
2 Samuel 22:47-49 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of …
Psalm 58:10,11 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall …
Revelation 19:1-4 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, …
pleaded
Proverbs 22:23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those …
Lamentations 3:58-60 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life…
Micah 7:9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against …
kept his servant
1 Samuel 25:26,34 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, …
Hosea 2:6,7 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make …
2 Corinthians 13:7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear …
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly…
2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve …
hath returned
2 Samuel 3:28,29 And afterward when David heard it, he said…
1 Kings 2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which …
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. …
Psalm 7:16 His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violent dealing …
to take her It is probable that David had heard that Saul, to cut off his pretensions to the throne, had married Michal to Phalti; and this justified him in taking Abigail, it not being then unlawful for a man to have several wives. This conduct of David's corresponds with the manner in which the oriental princes generally form their matrimonial alliances. `The king of Abyssinia,' says Mr. Bruce, `sends an officer to the house where the lady lives, who announces to her that it is the king's pleasure she should remove instantly to the palace. She then dresses herself in the best manner, and immediately obeys. Thenceforward he assigns her an apartment in the palace, and gives her a house in any part she chooses.'
Proverbs 18:22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.
Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife …
Proverbs 31:10,30 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies…
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.
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.
thine
Ruth 2:10,13 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said …
Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility.
Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.
to wash
Genesis 18:4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and …
John 13:3-5 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, …
1 Timothy 5:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, …
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.
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
Jezreel
Joshua 15:56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
2 Samuel 3:2 And to David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, …
both
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall …
Matthew 19:5,8 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and …
his wives
1 Samuel 27:3 And David dwelled with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man …
1 Samuel 30:5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, …
2 Samuel 5:13-16 And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after …
But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
But Saul. Rather, `for Saul,' etc. as the particle (), wav, frequently signifies; this being the cause why David took another wife.
Michal
1 Samuel 18:20,27 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the …
Phalti
2 Samuel 3:14,14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver …
Phaltiel
Gallim This town appears to have been situated in the tribe of Benjamin, as it is mentioned in Is
