25:1 Now
Samuel
died.
And
all
Israel
assembled
and
mourned
for
him,
and
they
buried
him
in
his
house
at
Ramah.
Then
David
rose
and
went
down
to
the
wilderness
of
Paran.
25:2 And
there
was
a
man
in
Maon
whose
business
was
in
Carmel.
The
man
was
very
rich;
he
had
three
thousand
sheep
and
a
thousand
goats.
He
was
shearing
his
sheep
in
Carmel.
25:3 Now
the
name
of
the
man
was
Nabal,
and
the
name
of
his
wife
Abigail.
The
woman
was
discerning
and
beautiful,
but
the
man
was
harsh
and
badly
behaved;
he
was
a
Calebite.
25:4 David
heard
in
the
wilderness
that
Nabal
was
shearing
his
sheep.
25:5 So
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.
25:6 And
thus
you
shall
greet
him:
'Peace
be
to
you,
and
peace
be
to
your
house,
and
peace
be
to
all
that
you
have.
25:7 I
hear
that
you
have
shearers.
Now
your
shepherds
have
been
with
us,
and
we
did
them
no
harm,
and
they
missed
nothing
all
the
time
they
were
in
Carmel.
25:8 Ask
your
young
men,
and
they
will
tell
you.
Therefore
let
my
young
men
find
favor
in
your
eyes,
for
we
come
on
a
feast
day.
Please
give
whatever
you
have
at
hand
to
your
servants
and
to
your
son
David.'"
25:9 When
David's
young
men
came,
they
said
all
this
to
Nabal
in
the
name
of
David,
and
then
they
waited.
25:10 And
Nabal
answered
David's
servants,
"Who
is
David
Who
is
the
son
of
Jesse
There
are
many
servants
these
days
who
are
breaking
away
from
their
masters.
25:11 Shall
I
take
my
bread
and
my
water
and
my
meat
that
I
have
killed
for
my
shearers
and
give
it
to
men
who
come
from
I
do
not
know
where"
25:12 So
David's
young
men
turned
away
and
came
back
and
told
him
all
this.
25:13 And
David
said
to
his
men,
"Every
man
strap
on
his
sword!"
And
every
man
of
them
strapped
on
his
sword.
David
also
strapped
on
his
sword.
And
about
four
hundred
men
went
up
after
David,
while
two
hundred
remained
with
the
baggage.
25:14 But
one
of
the
young
men
told
Abigail,
Nabal's
wife,
"Behold,
David
sent
messengers
out
of
the
wilderness
to
greet
our
master,
and
he
railed
at
them.
25:15 Yet
the
men
were
very
good
to
us,
and
we
suffered
no
harm,
and
we
did
not
miss
anything
when
we
were
in
the
fields,
as
long
as
we
went
with
them.
25:16 They
were
a
wall
to
us
both
by
night
and
by
day,
all
the
while
we
were
with
them
keeping
the
sheep.
25:17 Now
therefore
know
this
and
consider
what
you
should
do,
for
harm
is
determined
against
our
master
and
against
all
his
house,
and
he
is
such
a
worthless
man
that
one
cannot
speak
to
him."
25:18 Then
Abigail
made
haste
and
took
two
hundred
loaves
and
two
skins
of
wine
and
five
sheep
already
prepared
and
five
seahs
of
parched
grain
and
a
hundred
clusters
of
raisins
and
two
hundred
cakes
of
figs,
and
laid
them
on
donkeys.
25:19 And
she
said
to
her
young
men,
"Go
on
before
me;
behold,
I
come
after
you."
But
she
did
not
tell
her
husband
Nabal.
25:20 And
as
she
rode
on
the
donkey
and
came
down
under
cover
of
the
mountain,
behold,
David
and
his
men
came
down
toward
her,
and
she
met
them.
25:21 Now
David
had
said,
"Surely
in
vain
have
I
guarded
all
that
this
fellow
has
in
the
wilderness,
so
that
nothing
was
missed
of
all
that
belonged
to
him,
and
he
has
returned
me
evil
for
good.
25:22 God
do
so
to
the
enemies
of
David
and
more
also,
if
by
morning
I
leave
so
much
as
one
male
of
all
who
belong
to
him."
25:23 When
Abigail
saw
David,
she
hurried
and
got
down
from
the
donkey
and
fell
before
David
on
her
face
and
bowed
to
the
ground.
25:24 She
fell
at
his
feet
and
said,
"On
me
alone,
my
lord,
be
the
guilt.
Please
let
your
servant
speak
in
your
ears,
and
hear
the
words
of
your
servant.
25:25 Let
not
my
lord
regard
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
did
not
see
the
young
men
of
my
lord,
whom
you
sent.
25:26 Now
then,
my
lord,
as
the
LORD
lives,
and
as
your
soul
lives,
because
the
LORD
has
restrained
you
from
bloodguilt
and
from
saving
with
your
own
hand,
now
then
let
your
enemies
and
those
who
seek
to
do
evil
to
my
lord
be
as
Nabal.
25:27 And
now
let
this
present
that
your
servant
has
brought
to
my
lord
be
given
to
the
young
men
who
follow
my
lord.
25:28 Please
forgive
the
trespass
of
your
servant.
For
the
LORD
will
certainly
make
my
lord
a
sure
house,
because
my
lord
is
fighting
the
battles
of
the
LORD,
and
evil
shall
not
be
found
in
you
so
long
as
you
live.
25:29 If
men
rise
up
to
pursue
you
and
to
seek
your
life,
the
life
of
my
lord
shall
be
bound
in
the
bundle
of
the
living
in
the
care
of
the
LORD
your
God.
And
the
lives
of
your
enemies
he
shall
sling
out
as
from
the
hollow
of
a
sling.
25:30 And
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,
25:31 my
lord
shall
have
no
cause
of
grief
or
pangs
of
conscience
for
having
shed
blood
without
cause
or
for
my
lord
taking
vengeance
himself.
And
when
the
LORD
has
dealt
well
with
my
lord,
then
remember
your
servant."
25:32 And
David
said
to
Abigail,
"Blessed
be
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
who
sent
you
this
day
to
meet
me!
25:33 Blessed
be
your
discretion,
and
blessed
be
you,
who
have
kept
me
this
day
from
bloodguilt
and
from
avenging
myself
with
my
own
hand!
25:34 For
as
surely
as
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
lives,
who
has
restrained
me
from
hurting
you,
unless
you
had
hurried
and
come
to
meet
me,
truly
by
morning
there
had
not
been
left
to
Nabal
so
much
as
one
male."
25:35 Then
David
received
from
her
hand
what
she
had
brought
him.
And
he
said
to
her,
"Go
up
in
peace
to
your
house.
See,
I
have
obeyed
your
voice,
and
I
have
granted
your
petition."
25:36 And
Abigail
came
to
Nabal,
and
behold,
he
was
holding
a
feast
in
his
house,
like
the
feast
of
a
king.
And
Nabal's
heart
was
merry
within
him,
for
he
was
very
drunk.
So
she
told
him
nothing
at
all
until
the
morning
light.
25:37 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.
25:38 And
about
ten
days
later
the
LORD
struck
Nabal,
and
he
died.
25:39 When
David
heard
that
Nabal
was
dead,
he
said,
"Blessed
be
the
LORD
who
has
avenged
the
insult
I
received
at
the
hand
of
Nabal,
and
has
kept
back
his
servant
from
wrongdoing.
The
LORD
has
returned
the
evil
of
Nabal
on
his
own
head."
Then
David
sent
and
spoke
to
Abigail,
to
take
her
as
his
wife.
25:40 When
the
servants
of
David
came
to
Abigail
at
Carmel,
they
said
to
her,
"David
has
sent
us
to
you
to
take
you
to
him
as
his
wife."
25:41 And
she
rose
and
bowed
with
her
face
to
the
ground
and
said,
"Behold,
your
handmaid
is
a
servant
to
wash
the
feet
of
the
servants
of
my
lord."
25:42 And
Abigail
hurried
and
rose
and
mounted
a
donkey,
and
her
five
young
women
attended
her.
She
followed
the
messengers
of
David
and
became
his
wife.
25:43 David
also
took
Ahinoam
of
Jezreel,
and
both
of
them
became
his
wives.
25:44 Saul
had
given
Michal
his
daughter,
David's
wife,
to
Palti
the
son
of
Laish,
who
was
of
Gallim.