1And 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.[ † ]1 Samuel 23:291 Samuel 28:3Numbers 20:29Deuteronomy 34:8
2And 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.[ † ]Genesis 21:21Numbers 10:12Numbers 13:31 Samuel 23:24 3Now 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.[ † ]Joshua 15:55 4And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.[ † ]Joshua 15:131 Samuel 30:14 5And 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: 6and 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.[ † ]Genesis 38:132 Samuel 13:23 7And 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.[ † ]Judges 19:201 Chronicles 12:18Psalms 122:7Luke 10:5 8Ask 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.[ † ]1 Samuel 25:15-21
9And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. 10And 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.[ † ]Nehemiah 8:10-12Esther 8:17Esther 9:19-22 11Shall 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?[ † ]Judges 9:28 12So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings. 13And 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.[ † ]Judges 8:6-15
14But 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. 15But 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:[ † ]1 Samuel 30:24 16they were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.[ † ]1 Samuel 25:7-21 17Now 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.[ † ]Exodus 14:22Job 1:101 Samuel 20:7
18Then 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.[ † ]Deuteronomy 13:13Judges 19:22 19And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.[ † ]Genesis 32:13Proverbs 18:16Proverbs 21:14 20And 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. 21Now 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.[ † ]Genesis 32:16-20 22So 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.[ † ]1 Samuel 24:17Psalms 109:5Proverbs 17:13Ruth 1:171 Samuel 3:171 Samuel 20:13-161 Samuel 25:34
23And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,[ † ]1 Kings 14:101 Kings 21:212 Kings 9:8 24and 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. 25Let 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. 26Now 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.[ † ]Joshua 15:18Judges 1:142 Kings 2:2Genesis 20:61 Samuel 25:33Romans 12:19 27And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.[ † ]2 Samuel 18:32 28I 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.[ † ]Genesis 33:111 Samuel 30:262 Kings 5:152 Samuel 7:11-16, 271 Kings 9:51 Chronicles 17:10-251 Samuel 18:17 29Yet 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.[ † ]1 Samuel 24:11Psalms 7:3Psalms 66:9Colossians 3:3 30And 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;[ † ]Jeremiah 10:18 31that 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.
32And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:[ † ]1 Samuel 13:141 Samuel 15:28 33and 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.[ † ]Genesis 24:27Exodus 18:101 Kings 1:48Psalms 41:13Psalms 72:18Psalms 106:48Luke 1:68 34For 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.[ † ]1 Samuel 25:26 35So 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.[ † ]1 Samuel 25:221 Samuel 20:422 Samuel 15:92 Kings 5:19Luke 7:50Luke 8:48
36And 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.[ † ]Genesis 19:21 37But 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. 38And it came to pass about ten days after , that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.[ † ]2 Samuel 13:28Proverbs 20:1Isaiah 5:11Daniel 5:1Hosea 4:11
39And 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.[ † ]1 Samuel 26:102 Samuel 6:7Psalms 104:291 Samuel 25:321 Samuel 24:15Proverbs 22:231 Samuel 25:26-34 40And 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. 41And 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.[ † ]1 Kings 2:44 42And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of her's that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.[ † ]Proverbs 15:33Luke 7:38-44Joshua 15:56 44But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.[ † ]1 Samuel 27:31 Samuel 30:51 Samuel 18:202 Samuel 3:14