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1 Samuel 25
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
 David Collects a Third Wife
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| 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.
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| 25:4
And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. |
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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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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? |
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So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told
him all those sayings. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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: |
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They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with
them keeping the sheep. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you.
But she told not her husband Nabal. |
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And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert on
the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met
them. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
(25:22, 34)
David vows to will kill "any
that pisseth against the wall."
David, a man after God's own
heart (WWDD?)
"A person could piss
against a tree, he could piss on his mother, he could piss on his own breeches,
and get off, but he must not piss against the wall -- that would be going
quite too far. The origin of the divine prejudice against this humble crime
is not stated; but we know that the prejudice was very strong -- so strong
that nothing but a wholesale massacre of the people inhabiting the region
where the wall was defiled could satisfy the Deity." -- Mark Twain,
Letters from the Earth
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| 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,
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| 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.
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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; |
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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. |
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And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent
thee this day to meet me: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 25:38
And it came to pass
about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
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 God kills Nabal
"And it came to pass about ten days
after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died." This was convenient for
David who then took his property and his wife, Abigail.
How many has God killed?
(Complete list and estimated total)
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| 25:39
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.
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| 25:40
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. |
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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. |
(25:41-44)
David takes his second wife (Abigail)
after God killed her husband (Nabal). He also, at the same time, took another
wife (#3), Abinam. In the meantime, Saul gave Michal (his daughter and David's
first wife) to another man.
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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.
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David also took
Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. |
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But Saul had given
Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was
of Gallim. |
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