First Book of Samuel, Chapter 25

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Chapter 25 of 1 Samuel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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1. ¶ ¹Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and ²mourned for him, and ³buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the ⁴wilderness of Paran.
2. ¶ Now there was a man in ⁵Maon whose business was in ⁶Carmel; and the man was very ^[a]rich, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And it came about while ⁷he was shearing his sheep in Carmel
3. (now the man’s name was Nabal, and his ⁸wife’s name was Abigail. And the woman was ^[b]intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and he was ⁹a Calebite),
4. that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
5. So David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, ^[c]visit Nabal and greet him in my name;
6. and thus you shall say, ‘^[d]Have a long life, ¹⁰peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
7. Now I have heard ¹¹that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us and we have not insulted them, ¹²nor have they missed anything all the days they were in Carmel.
8. Ask your young men and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on ¹³a ^[e]festive day. Please give whatever you find at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”
9. ¶ When David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in David’s name; then they waited.
10. But Nabal answered David’s servants and said, “¹⁴Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are each breaking away from his master.
11. Shall I then ¹⁵take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men ^[f]whose origin I do not know?”
12. So David’s young men retraced their way and went back; and they came and told him according to all these words.
13. David said to his men, “Each of you gird on his sword.” So each man girded on his sword. And David also girded on his sword, and about ¹⁶four hundred men went up behind David while two hundred ¹⁷stayed with the baggage.
14. ¶ But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to ^[g]18greet our master, and he scorned them.
15. Yet the men were very good to us, and we were not ¹⁹insulted, nor did we miss anything ^[h]as long as we went about with them, while we were in the fields.
16. ²⁰They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep.
17. Now therefore, know and ^[i]consider what you should do, for evil is plotted against our master and against all his household; and he is such a ^[j]worthless man that no one can speak to him.”
18. ¶ Then Abigail hurried and ²¹took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
19. She said to her young men, “²²Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
20. It came about as she was riding on her donkey and coming down by the hidden part of the mountain, that behold, David and his men were coming down toward her; so she met them.
21. Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has ²³returned me evil for good.
22. ²⁴May God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, ²⁵if by morning I leave as much as one ^[k]male of any who belong to him.”
23. ¶ When Abigail saw David, she hurried and dismounted from her donkey, and fell on her face before David ²⁶and bowed herself to the ground.
24. She fell at his feet and said, “On me ^[l]alone, my lord, be the blame. And please let your maidservant speak ^[m]to you, and listen to the words of your maidservant.
25. Please do not let my lord ^[n]pay attention to this ^[o]worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. ^[p]Nabal is his name and folly is with him; but I your maidservant did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.
26. ¶ “Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, since the LORD has restrained you from ^[q]shedding blood, and ²⁷from ^[r]avenging yourself by your own hand, now then ²⁸let your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be as Nabal.
27. Now let ²⁹this ^[s]gift which your maidservant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who ^[t]accompany my lord.
28. Please forgive ³⁰the transgression of your maidservant; for ³¹the LORD will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord is ³²fighting the battles of the LORD, and ³³evil will not be found in you all your days.
29. Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your ^[u]life, then the ^[v]life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the LORD your God; but the ^[w]lives of your enemies ³⁴He will sling out ^[x]as from the hollow of a sling.
30. And when the LORD does for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and ³⁵appoints you ruler over Israel,
31. this will not ^[y]cause grief or a troubled heart to my lord, both by having shed blood without cause and by my lord having ^[z]avenged himself. ³⁶When the LORD deals well with my lord, then remember your maidservant.”
32. ¶ Then David said to Abigail, “³⁷Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me,
33. and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, ³⁸who have kept me this day from ^[aa]bloodshed and from ^[ab]avenging myself by my own hand.
34. Nevertheless, as the LORD God of Israel lives, ³⁹who has restrained me from harming you, unless you had come quickly to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal until the morning light as much as one ^[ac]male.”
35. So David received from her hand what she had brought him and said to her, “⁴⁰Go up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to ^[ad]you and ^[ae]41granted your request.”
36. ¶ Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding ⁴²a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, ⁴³for he was very drunk; so ⁴⁴she did not tell him anything ^[af]at all until the morning light.
37. But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone.
38. About ten days later, ⁴⁵the LORD struck Nabal and he died.
39. ¶ When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has ⁴⁶pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and ⁴⁷has kept back His servant from evil. The LORD has also returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent ^[ag]48a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife.
40. When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you as his wife.”
41. She arose ⁴⁹and bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your maidservant is a maid ⁵⁰to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”
42. Then ⁵¹Abigail quickly arose, and rode on a donkey, with her five maidens who ^[ah]attended her; and she followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
43. ¶ David had also taken Ahinoam of ⁵²Jezreel, and ⁵³they both became his wives.
44. ¶ Now Saul had given ⁵⁴Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from ⁵⁵Gallim.

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FOOTNOTES

1. ^ Lit great
2. ^ Lit of good understanding
3. ^ Lit go into
4. ^ Lit To life
5. ^ Lit good
6. ^ Lit from where they are
7. ^ Lit bless
8. ^ Lit all the days
9. ^ Lit see
10. ^ Lit son of Belial
11. ^ Lit who urinates against the wall
12. ^ Lit even me
13. ^ Lit in your ears
14. ^ Lit set his heart to
15. ^ Lit man of Belial
16. ^ I.e. Fool
17. ^ Lit coming in with blood
18. ^ Lit saving
19. ^ Lit blessing
20. ^ Lit walk at the feet of
21. ^ Lit soul
22. ^ Lit soul
23. ^ Lit soul
24. ^ Lit in the midst
25. ^ Lit become staggering to you or a stumbling of the heart
26. ^ Lit saved
27. ^ Lit coming in with blood
28. ^ Lit saving
29. ^ Lit who urinates against the wall
30. ^ Lit your voice
31. ^ Lit lifted up your face
32. ^ Lit small or large
33. ^ Lit and spoke
34. ^ Lit walked at her feet

REFERENCES

1. ^ 1Sa 28:3
2. ^ Nu 20:29; De 34:8
3. ^ 2Ki 21:18; 2Ch 33:20
4. ^ Ge 21:21; Nu 10:12; 13:3
5. ^ 1Sa 23:24
6. ^ Jos 15:55
7. ^ Ge 38:13; 2Sa 13:23
8. ^ Pr 31:10
9. ^ Jos 15:13; 1Sa 30:14
10. ^ 1Ch 12:18; Ps 122:7; Lu 10:5
11. ^ 2Sa 13:23, 24
12. ^ 1Sa 25:15, 21
13. ^ Ne 8:10-12; Es 9:19, 22
14. ^ Jg 9:28
15. ^ Jg 8:6, 15
16. ^ 1Sa 23:13
17. ^ 1Sa 30:24
18. ^ 1Sa 13:10; 15:13
19. ^ 1Sa 25:7, 21
20. ^ Ex 14:22; Jb 1:10
21. ^ 2Sa 16:1; 1Ch 12:40
22. ^ Ge 32:16, 20
23. ^ Ps 109:5; Pr 17:13
24. ^ 1Sa 3:17; 20:13
25. ^ 1Ki 14:10
26. ^ 1Sa 20:41
27. ^ Heb 10:30
28. ^ 2Sa 18:32
29. ^ Ge 33:11; 1Sa 30:26
30. ^ 1Sa 25:24
31. ^ 1Sa 22:14; 2Sa 7:11, 16
32. ^ 1Sa 18:17
33. ^ 1Sa 24:11; Ps 7:3
34. ^ Je 10:18
35. ^ 1Sa 13:14
36. ^ Ge 40:14; 1Sa 25:30
37. ^ Ex 18:10; 1Ki 1:48; Ps 41:13; 72:18; 106:48; Lu 1:68
38. ^ 1Sa 25:26
39. ^ 1Sa 25:26
40. ^ 1Sa 20:42; 2Ki 5:19
41. ^ Ge 19:21
42. ^ 2Sa 13:28
43. ^ Pr 20:1; Is 5:11; Ho 4:11
44. ^ 1Sa 25:19
45. ^ 1Sa 26:10; 2Sa 6:7; Ps 104:29
46. ^ 1Sa 24:15; Pr 22:23
47. ^ 1Sa 25:26, 34
48. ^ Sg 8:8
49. ^ 1Sa 25:23
50. ^ Mr 1:7
51. ^ Ge 24:61-67
52. ^ Jos 15:56
53. ^ 1Sa 27:3; 30:5
54. ^ 1Sa 18:27; 2Sa 3:14
55. ^ Is 10:30

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