1Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

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1 Samuel 28:3, 1 Samuel 28:3, Numbers 20:29, Deuteronomy 34:8, Numbers 20:29

2There 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.

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1 Samuel 23:24, Joshua 15:55, 1 Samuel 23:24, Joshua 15:55, Genesis 38:13

3Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

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Proverbs 14:1, Proverbs 14:1, Proverbs 31:10, Isaiah 32:5, Isaiah 32:7

4David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

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Genesis 38:13, 2 Samuel 13:23, Genesis 38:13, 2 Samuel 13:23

5David 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.

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1 Samuel 17:22, Genesis 43:23, 1 Samuel 17:22, Genesis 43:23

6You shall tell him, 'Long life to you! Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

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1 Chronicles 12:18, 1 Chronicles 12:18, Luke 10:5, Luke 10:5, Psalms 122:7

7Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we did not hurt them, neither was there anything missing from them, all the while they were in Carmel.

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1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:15, 1 Samuel 25:16, 1 Samuel 25:15

8Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.'"

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Esther 9:19, Esther 9:19, Nehemiah 8:10, Nehemiah 8:12, Nehemiah 8:10

9When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

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2 Chronicles 14:7, Genesis 8:4, 2 Kings 2:15, 2 Chronicles 14:7, Genesis 8:4

10Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

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Judges 9:28, Judges 9:28, 1 Kings 12:16, 1 Samuel 22:2, 2 Samuel 20:1

11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I do not know where they come from?"

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Judges 8:6, Judges 8:6, Galatians 6:10, Galatians 6:10, 1 Peter 4:9

12So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

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Hebrews 13:17, 2 Samuel 24:13, Isaiah 36:21, Isaiah 36:22, Hebrews 13:17

13David said to his men, "Every man put on his sword!" Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

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1 Samuel 23:13, 1 Samuel 23:13, Romans 12:19, Romans 12:21, Proverbs 19:2

14But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he railed at them.

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Mark 15:29, 1 Samuel 13:10, Mark 15:29, 1 Samuel 13:10

15But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.

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1 Samuel 25:7, 1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:7, 1 Samuel 25:21, Philippians 2:15

16They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

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Job 1:10, Job 1:10, Exodus 14:22, Exodus 14:22, Zechariah 2:5

17Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him."

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1 Samuel 20:7, Deuteronomy 13:13, 1 Samuel 20:7, Deuteronomy 13:13, 1 Samuel 25:25

18Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

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2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:1, Proverbs 18:16, Matthew 5:25, Proverbs 18:16

19She said to her young men, "Go on before me. Behold, I come after you." But she did not tell her husband, Nabal.

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Genesis 32:20, Genesis 32:20, Genesis 32:16, Genesis 32:16, Proverbs 31:27

20It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.

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2 Kings 4:24, 2 Kings 4:24

21Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

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Proverbs 17:13, Proverbs 17:13, Ephesians 4:26, Ephesians 4:31, Romans 12:21

22God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall."

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1 Samuel 20:13, 1 Kings 14:10, 1 Samuel 3:17, 1 Samuel 20:13, 1 Kings 14:10

23When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and got off from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

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1 Samuel 20:41, 1 Samuel 20:41, Judges 1:14, Joshua 15:18, Judges 1:14

24She fell at his feet, and said, "On me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the words of your handmaid.

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Esther 8:3, 2 Samuel 14:9, 1 Samuel 25:28, Esther 8:3, 2 Samuel 14:9

25Please do not let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

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1 Samuel 25:17, 1 Samuel 25:17, Malachi 2:2, Malachi 2:2, 2 Samuel 13:33

26Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, since the Lord has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

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2 Samuel 18:32, 2 Samuel 18:32, Romans 12:19, Romans 12:20, Romans 12:19

27Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

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1 Samuel 30:26, Genesis 33:11, 1 Samuel 30:26, Genesis 33:11, 2 Kings 5:15

28Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid. For the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord; and evil shall not be found in you all your days.

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2 Samuel 7:11, 1 Samuel 18:17, 2 Samuel 7:11, 1 Samuel 18:17, 1 Chronicles 17:25

29Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

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Matthew 10:29, Matthew 10:30, John 17:21, Malachi 3:17, Matthew 10:29

30It shall come to pass, when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over Israel,

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1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 15:28, Psalms 89:20, 1 Samuel 23:17

31that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid."

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Genesis 40:14, Genesis 40:14, Romans 12:19, Romans 12:19, 2 Corinthians 1:12

32David said to Abigail, "Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!

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Luke 1:68, Luke 1:68, Psalms 72:18, Exodus 18:10, Genesis 24:27

33Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

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1 Samuel 25:26, 1 Samuel 25:26, Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 27:21, Proverbs 25:12

34For indeed, as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall."

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1 Samuel 25:26, 1 Samuel 11:11, 1 Samuel 25:18, Joshua 10:6, Joshua 10:9

35So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request."

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Genesis 19:21, 2 Kings 5:19, 1 Samuel 20:42, Genesis 19:21, 2 Kings 5:19

36Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

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2 Samuel 13:28, Proverbs 20:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:7, 1 Thessalonians 5:8, 1 Samuel 25:19

37It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

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Job 15:21, Job 15:22, Deuteronomy 28:28, 1 Samuel 25:22, Proverbs 23:29

38It happened about ten days after, that the Lord struck Nabal, so that he died.

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1 Samuel 26:10, 1 Samuel 26:10, 1 Samuel 6:9, 2 Kings 19:35, Acts 12:23

39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed is the Lord, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. The Lord has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head." David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.

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Proverbs 22:23, 1 Samuel 25:34, 1 Samuel 25:26, Proverbs 22:23, 1 Samuel 25:34

40When the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife."

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Genesis 24:51, Genesis 24:51, Genesis 24:37, Genesis 24:38, Genesis 24:37

41She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, "Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."

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1 Timothy 5:10, 1 Timothy 5:10, Ruth 2:10, John 13:3, John 13:5

42Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

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Genesis 24:61, Genesis 24:67, Genesis 24:61, Genesis 24:67, Psalms 45:10

43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

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1 Samuel 30:5, Joshua 15:56, 1 Samuel 27:3, 1 Samuel 30:5, Joshua 15:56

44Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

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2 Samuel 3:14, 1 Samuel 18:27, 2 Samuel 3:14, 1 Samuel 18:27, 1 Samuel 18:20