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They buried him at his home in Ramah.</span></p><p><span class="text">Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">David and the Wife of Nabal</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>There was a man in Maon, whose property was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was clever and beautiful, but the man was surly and mean; he was a Calebite. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>So 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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Thus you shall salute him: ‘Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>I hear that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing, all the time they were in Carmel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your sight; for we have come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>When David’s young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David; and then they waited. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>But Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants today who are breaking away from their masters. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Shall I take my bread and my water and the meat that I have butchered for my shearers, and give it to men who come from I do not know where?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>So David’s young men turned away, and came back and told him all this. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every one of them strapped on his sword; David also strapped on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he shouted insults at them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we never missed anything when we were in the fields, as long as we were with them; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Now therefore know this and consider what you should do; for evil has been decided against our master and against all his house; he is so ill-natured that no one can speak to him.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>and said to her young men, “Go on ahead of me; I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>As she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Now David had said, “Surely it was in vain that I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; but he has returned me evil for good. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>God do so to David<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-7884a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>When Abigail saw David, she hurried and alighted from the donkey, and fell before David on her face, bowing to the ground. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>She fell at his feet and said, “Upon me alone, my lord, be the guilt; please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>My lord, do not take seriously this ill-natured fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-7887b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>“Now then, my lord, as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> lives, and as you yourself live, since the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has restrained you from bloodguilt and from taking vengeance with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be like Nabal. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Please forgive the trespass of your servant; for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>If anyone should rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living under the care of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God; but the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>When the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>my lord shall have no cause of grief, or pangs of conscience, for having shed blood without cause or for having saved himself. And when the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>Blessed be your good sense, and blessed be you, who have kept me today from bloodguilt and from avenging myself by my own hand! </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>For as surely as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there would not have been left to Nabal so much as one male.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>Then David received from her hand what she had brought him; he said to her, “Go up to your house in peace; see, I have heeded your voice, and I have granted your petition.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>Abigail came to Nabal; he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him; he became like a stone. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>About ten days later the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> struck Nabal, and he died.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> who has judged the case of Nabal’s insult to me, and has kept back his servant from evil; the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has returned the evildoing of Nabal upon his own head.” Then David sent and wooed Abigail, to make her his wife. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>When David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>She rose and bowed down, with her face to the ground, and said, “Your servant is a slave to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>Abigail got up hurriedly and rode away on a donkey; her five maids attended her. She went after the messengers of David and became his wife.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span>David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel; both of them became his wives. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">44</span>Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Samuel 25:22">1 Samuel 25:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Compare Syr: Heb <i>the enemies of David</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Samuel 25:25">1 Samuel 25:25</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Fool</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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