1And Samuel died; and all the Israelites assembled, 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 aught 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. Wherefore let the young men find favor 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 whence 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 goods.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 salute 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 son of Belial, 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 parched [corn], and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid [them] on asses.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 ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and behold, David and his men came down over against her; and she met them.stylus2 Kings 4:24, 2 Kings 4:2421(Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this [man] hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that [pertained] to him: and he hath requited 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 lighted off the ass, 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 audience, 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 man of Belial, [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 will 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 will be no grief to thee, nor offense 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 drunken: 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 communed 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 an ass, 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