1When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.stylus1 Samuel 28:3, 1 Samuel 28:3, Numbers 20:29, Deuteronomy 34:8, Numbers 20:292Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.stylus1 Samuel 23:24, Joshua 15:55, 1 Samuel 23:24, Joshua 15:55, Genesis 38:133His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.stylusProverbs 14:1, Proverbs 14:1, Proverbs 31:10, Isaiah 32:5, Isaiah 32:74While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.stylusGenesis 38:13, 2 Samuel 13:23, Genesis 38:13, 2 Samuel 13:235So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my namestylus1 Samuel 17:22, Genesis 43:23, 1 Samuel 17:22, Genesis 43:236and say to him, ‘Long life to you, and peace to you and your house and to all that belongs to you.stylus1 Chronicles 12:18, 1 Chronicles 12:18, Luke 10:5, Luke 10:5, Psalms 122:77Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.stylus1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:15, 1 Samuel 25:16, 1 Samuel 25:158Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can afford to your servants and to your son David.’”stylusEsther 9:19, Esther 9:19, Nehemiah 8:10, Nehemiah 8:12, Nehemiah 8:109When David’s young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.stylus2 Chronicles 14:7, Genesis 8:4, 2 Kings 2:15, 2 Chronicles 14:7, Genesis 8:410But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.stylusJudges 9:28, Judges 9:28, 1 Kings 12:16, 1 Samuel 22:2, 2 Samuel 20:111Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”stylusJudges 8:6, Judges 8:6, Galatians 6:10, Galatians 6:10, 1 Peter 4:912So David’s men turned around and went back, and they relayed to him all these words.stylusHebrews 13:17, 2 Samuel 24:13, Isaiah 36:21, Isaiah 36:22, Hebrews 13:1713And David said to his men, “Strap on your swords!” So David and all his men put on their swords, and about four hundred men followed David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.stylus1 Samuel 23:13, 1 Samuel 23:13, Romans 12:19, Romans 12:21, Proverbs 19:214Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.stylusMark 15:29, 1 Samuel 13:10, Mark 15:29, 1 Samuel 13:1015Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.stylus1 Samuel 25:7, 1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:7, 1 Samuel 25:21, Philippians 2:1516They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.stylusJob 1:10, Job 1:10, Exodus 14:22, Exodus 14:22, Zechariah 2:517Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”stylus1 Samuel 20:7, Deuteronomy 13:13, 1 Samuel 20:7, Deuteronomy 13:13, 1 Samuel 25:2518Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeysstylus2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:1, Proverbs 18:16, Matthew 5:25, Proverbs 18:1619and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.stylusGenesis 32:20, Genesis 32:20, Genesis 32:16, Genesis 32:16, Proverbs 31:2720As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.stylus2 Kings 4:24, 2 Kings 4:2421Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.stylusProverbs 17:13, Proverbs 17:13, Ephesians 4:26, Ephesians 4:31, Romans 12:2122May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”stylus1 Samuel 20:13, 1 Kings 14:10, 1 Samuel 3:17, 1 Samuel 20:13, 1 Kings 14:1023When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.stylus1 Samuel 20:41, 1 Samuel 20:41, Judges 1:14, Joshua 15:18, Judges 1:1424She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant.stylusEsther 8:3, 2 Samuel 14:9, 1 Samuel 25:28, Esther 8:3, 2 Samuel 14:925My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent.stylus1 Samuel 25:17, 1 Samuel 25:17, Malachi 2:2, Malachi 2:2, 2 Samuel 13:3326Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.stylus2 Samuel 18:32, 2 Samuel 18:32, Romans 12:19, Romans 12:20, Romans 12:1927Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.stylus1 Samuel 30:26, Genesis 33:11, 1 Samuel 30:26, Genesis 33:11, 2 Kings 5:1528Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.stylus2 Samuel 7:11, 1 Samuel 18:17, 2 Samuel 7:11, 1 Samuel 18:17, 1 Chronicles 17:2529And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.stylusMatthew 10:29, Matthew 10:30, John 17:21, Malachi 3:17, Matthew 10:2930When the LORD has done for my lord all the good He promised, and when He has appointed you ruler over Israel,stylus1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 15:28, Psalms 89:20, 1 Samuel 23:1731then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your maidservant.”stylusGenesis 40:14, Genesis 40:14, Romans 12:19, Romans 12:19, 2 Corinthians 1:1232Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!stylusLuke 1:68, Luke 1:68, Psalms 72:18, Exodus 18:10, Genesis 24:2733Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.stylus1 Samuel 25:26, 1 Samuel 25:26, Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 27:21, Proverbs 25:1234Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”stylus1 Samuel 25:26, 1 Samuel 11:11, 1 Samuel 25:18, Joshua 10:6, Joshua 10:935Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him, and he said to her, “Go home in peace. See, I have heeded your voice and granted your request.”stylusGenesis 19:21, 2 Kings 5:19, 1 Samuel 20:42, Genesis 19:21, 2 Kings 5:1936When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.stylus2 Samuel 13:28, Proverbs 20:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:7, 1 Thessalonians 5:8, 1 Samuel 25:1937In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these events, and his heart failed within him and he became like a stone.stylusJob 15:21, Job 15:22, Deuteronomy 28:28, 1 Samuel 25:22, Proverbs 23:2938About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.stylus1 Samuel 26:10, 1 Samuel 26:10, 1 Samuel 6:9, 2 Kings 19:35, Acts 12:2339On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking for her in marriage.stylusProverbs 22:23, 1 Samuel 25:34, 1 Samuel 25:26, Proverbs 22:23, 1 Samuel 25:3440When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, “David has sent us to take you as his wife.”stylusGenesis 24:51, Genesis 24:51, Genesis 24:37, Genesis 24:38, Genesis 24:3741She arose, then bowed facedown and said, “Here is your maidservant, ready to serve and to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”stylus1 Timothy 5:10, 1 Timothy 5:10, Ruth 2:10, John 13:3, John 13:542So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.stylusGenesis 24:61, Genesis 24:67, Genesis 24:61, Genesis 24:67, Psalms 45:1043David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So she and Abigail were both his wives.stylus1 Samuel 30:5, Joshua 15:56, 1 Samuel 27:3, 1 Samuel 30:5, Joshua 15:5644But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.stylus2 Samuel 3:14, 1 Samuel 18:27, 2 Samuel 3:14, 1 Samuel 18:27, 1 Samuel 18:20