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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
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