1And 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.stylus1 Samuel 28:3, 1 Samuel 28:3, Numbers 20:29, Deuteronomy 34:8, Numbers 20:292And 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.stylus1 Samuel 23:24, Joshua 15:55, 1 Samuel 23:24, Joshua 15:55, Genesis 38:133Now 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.stylusProverbs 14:1, Proverbs 14:1, Proverbs 31:10, Isaiah 32:5, Isaiah 32:74And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.stylusGenesis 38:13, 2 Samuel 13:23, Genesis 38:13, 2 Samuel 13:235And David 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:stylus1 Samuel 17:22, Genesis 43:23, 1 Samuel 17:22, Genesis 43:236And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thy house, and peace be to all that thou hast.stylus1 Chronicles 12:18, 1 Chronicles 12:18, Luke 10:5, Luke 10:5, Psalms 122:77And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds who were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there any thing missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel.stylus1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:15, 1 Samuel 25:16, 1 Samuel 25:158Ask thy young men, and they will show thee. Therefore let the young men find favour in thy eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatever cometh to thy hand to thy servants, and to thy son David.stylusEsther 9:19, Esther 9:19, Nehemiah 8:10, Nehemiah 8:12, Nehemiah 8:109And when David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal in the name of David, according to all these words, and ceased.stylus2 Chronicles 14:7, Genesis 8:4, 2 Kings 2:15, 2 Chronicles 14:7, Genesis 8:410And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants in these days that break away every man from his master.stylusJudges 9:28, Judges 9:28, 1 Kings 12:16, 1 Samuel 22:2, 2 Samuel 20:111Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men, whom I know not from where they are ?stylusJudges 8:6, Judges 8:6, Galatians 6:10, Galatians 6:10, 1 Peter 4:912So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all these sayings.stylusHebrews 13:17, 2 Samuel 24:13, Isaiah 36:21, Isaiah 36:22, Hebrews 13:1713And David said to 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 baggage.stylus1 Samuel 23:13, 1 Samuel 23:13, Romans 12:19, Romans 12:21, Proverbs 19:214But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master; and he railed at them.stylusMark 15:29, 1 Samuel 13:10, Mark 15:29, 1 Samuel 13:1015But the men were very good to 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:stylus1 Samuel 25:7, 1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:7, 1 Samuel 25:21, Philippians 2:1516They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.stylusJob 1:10, Job 1:10, Exodus 14:22, Exodus 14:22, Zechariah 2:517Now 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 worthless man, that a man cannot speak to him.stylus1 Samuel 20:7, Deuteronomy 13:13, 1 Samuel 20:7, Deuteronomy 13:13, 1 Samuel 25:2518Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of roasted grain, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.stylus2 Samuel 16:1, 2 Samuel 16:1, Proverbs 18:16, Matthew 5:25, Proverbs 18:1619And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.stylusGenesis 32:20, Genesis 32:20, Genesis 32:16, Genesis 32:16, Proverbs 31:2720And it was so, as she rode on the donkey, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.stylus2 Kings 4:24, 2 Kings 4:2421Now 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 to him: and he hath repaid me evil for good.stylusProverbs 17:13, Proverbs 17:13, Ephesians 4:26, Ephesians 4:31, Romans 12:2122So and more also do God to the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any male person.stylus1 Samuel 20:13, 1 Kings 14:10, 1 Samuel 3:17, 1 Samuel 20:13, 1 Kings 14:1023And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and got off the donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,stylus1 Samuel 20:41, 1 Samuel 20:41, Judges 1:14, Joshua 15:18, Judges 1:1424And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be : and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thy hearing, and hear the words of thy handmaid.stylusEsther 8:3, 2 Samuel 14:9, 1 Samuel 25:28, Esther 8:3, 2 Samuel 14:925Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this worthless man, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.stylus1 Samuel 25:17, 1 Samuel 25:17, Malachi 2:2, Malachi 2:2, 2 Samuel 13:3326Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withheld thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thy own hand, now let thy enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.stylus2 Samuel 18:32, 2 Samuel 18:32, Romans 12:19, Romans 12:20, Romans 12:1927And now this blessing which thy handmaid hath brought to my lord, let it even be given to the young men that follow my lord.stylus1 Samuel 30:26, Genesis 33:11, 1 Samuel 30:26, Genesis 33:11, 2 Kings 5:1528I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thy 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.stylus2 Samuel 7:11, 1 Samuel 18:17, 2 Samuel 7:11, 1 Samuel 18:17, 1 Chronicles 17:2529Yet a man hath 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 thy enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the middle of a sling.stylusMatthew 10:29, Matthew 10:30, John 17:21, Malachi 3:17, Matthew 10:2930And 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;stylus1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 13:14, 1 Samuel 15:28, Psalms 89:20, 1 Samuel 23:1731That this shall be no grief to thee, nor offence of heart to my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.stylusGenesis 40:14, Genesis 40:14, Romans 12:19, Romans 12:19, 2 Corinthians 1:1232And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me:stylusLuke 1:68, Luke 1:68, Psalms 72:18, Exodus 18:10, Genesis 24:2733And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.stylus1 Samuel 25:26, 1 Samuel 25:26, Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 27:21, Proverbs 25:1234For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, who hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any male person.stylus1 Samuel 25:26, 1 Samuel 11:11, 1 Samuel 25:18, Joshua 10:6, Joshua 10:935So David received from her hand that which she had brought him, and said to her, Return in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.stylusGenesis 19:21, 2 Kings 5:19, 1 Samuel 20:42, Genesis 19:21, 2 Kings 5:1936And 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 drunk: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.stylus2 Samuel 13:28, Proverbs 20:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:7, 1 Thessalonians 5:8, 1 Samuel 25:1937But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine had left Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.stylusJob 15:21, Job 15:22, Deuteronomy 28:28, 1 Samuel 25:22, Proverbs 23:2938And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.stylus1 Samuel 26:10, 1 Samuel 26:10, 1 Samuel 6:9, 2 Kings 19:35, Acts 12:2339And 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 talked with Abigail, to take her to himself for a wife.stylusProverbs 22:23, 1 Samuel 25:34, 1 Samuel 25:26, Proverbs 22:23, 1 Samuel 25:3440And when the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David hath sent us to thee, to take thee to him for a wife.stylusGenesis 24:51, Genesis 24:51, Genesis 24:37, Genesis 24:38, Genesis 24:3741And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thy handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.stylus1 Timothy 5:10, 1 Timothy 5:10, Ruth 2:10, John 13:3, John 13:542And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon a donkey, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.stylusGenesis 24:61, Genesis 24:67, Genesis 24:61, Genesis 24:67, Psalms 45:1043David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.stylus1 Samuel 30:5, Joshua 15:56, 1 Samuel 27:3, 1 Samuel 30:5, Joshua 15:5644But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.stylus2 Samuel 3:14, 1 Samuel 18:27, 2 Samuel 3:14, 1 Samuel 18:27, 1 Samuel 18:20