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The woman was intelligent and beautiful, but the man, a Calebite,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> was harsh and evil in his dealings.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep, <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>so David sent ten young men instructing them, &#8220;Go up to Carmel, and when you come to Nabal, greet him<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.5.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> in my name. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then say this: &#8216;Long life to you,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.6.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> and peace to you, peace to your family, and peace to all that is yours.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I hear that you are shearing.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.7.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on a feast<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.8.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> day.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.8.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> Please give whatever you have on hand to your servants and to your son David.&#8217; &#8221;</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>David&#8217;s young men went and said all these things to Nabal on David&#8217;s behalf,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.9.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> and they waited.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.9.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Nabal asked them, &#8220;Who is David?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.10.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> Who is Jesse&#8217;s son? Many slaves these days are running away from their masters. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Am I supposed to take my bread, my water, and my meat that I butchered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don&#8217;t know where they are from.&#8221;</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>David&#8217;s young men retraced their steps. When they returned to him, they reported all these words. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He said to his men, &#8220;All of you, put on your swords! &#8221; So each man put on his sword, and David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David while two hundred stayed with the supplies.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>One of Nabal&#8217;s young men informed Abigail, Nabal&#8217;s wife, &#8220;Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> but he screamed at them. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.15" /> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The men treated us very well. When we were in the field, we weren&#8217;t harassed<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.15.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> and nothing of ours was missing the whole time we were living among them. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.16" /> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They were a wall around us, both day and night,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.16.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> the entire time we were with them herding the sheep. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.17" /> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now consider carefully<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.17.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> what you should do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him! &#8221;</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.18" /> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Abigail hurried, taking two hundred loaves of bread, two clay jars of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.18.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.18.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.19" /> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then she said to her male servants, &#8220;Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.&#8221;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.19.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> But she did not tell her husband, Nabal.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.20" /> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As she rode the donkey down a mountain pass hidden from view, she saw David and his men coming toward her and met them. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.21" /> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>David had just said, &#8220;I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness for nothing. He was not missing anything, yet he paid me back evil for good. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.22" /> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>May God punish me<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.22.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> and do so severely<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.22.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> if I let any of his males<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.22.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> survive until morning.&#8221;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.22.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.23" /> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey and knelt down with her face to the ground and paid homage to David.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.23.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.24" /> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>She knelt at his feet and said, &#8220;The guilt is mine, my lord, but please let your servant speak to you directly. Listen to the words of your servant. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.25" /> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>My lord should pay no attention to this worthless fool Nabal, for he lives up to his name:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.25.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> His name means &#8216;stupid,&#8217; and stupidity is all he knows.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.25.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> I, your servant, didn&#8217;t see my lord&#8217;s young men whom you sent. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.26" /> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Now my lord, as surely as the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> lives and as you yourself live&#8212; it is the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> who kept you from participating in bloodshed and avenging yourself<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.26.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> by your own hand&#8212;may your enemies and those who intend to harm my lord be like Nabal.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.26.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.27" /> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Let this gift<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.27.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.28" /> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Please forgive your servant&#8217;s offense,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.28.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> for the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> is certain to make a lasting dynasty for my lord<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.28.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> because he fights the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>&#8217;s battles.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.28.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> Throughout your life, may evil<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.28.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> not be found in you.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.28.4"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.29" /> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>&#8220;Someone is pursuing you and intends to take your life. My lord&#8217;s life is tucked safely in the place<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.29.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> where the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> your God protects the living, but he is flinging away your enemies&#8217; lives like stones from a sling.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.29.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.30" /> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>When the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> does for my lord all the good he promised you and appoints you ruler over Israel,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.30.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.31" /> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>there will not be remorse or a troubled conscience for my lord because of needless bloodshed or my lord&#8217;s revenge. And when the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> does good things for my lord, may you remember me your servant.&#8221;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.31.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.32" /> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Then David said to Abigail, &#8220;Blessed be the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> God of Israel,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.32.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> who sent you to meet me today! <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.33" /> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>May your discernment be blessed, and may you be blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.33.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.34" /> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Otherwise, as surely as the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn&#8217;t have had any males<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.34.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> left by morning light.&#8221; <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.35" /> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Then David accepted what she had brought him and said, &#8220;Go home in peace.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.35.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> See, I have heard what you said and have granted your request.&#8221;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.35.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.36" /> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.36.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> Nabal&#8217;s heart was cheerful,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.36.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> and he was very drunk, so she didn&#8217;t say anything<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.36.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> to him<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.36.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> until morning light.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.37" /> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>In the morning when Nabal sobered up,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.37.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> his wife told him about these events. His heart died<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.1_Samuel.25.37.2"><span class="fnAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> and he became a stone. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.38" /> <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>About ten days later, the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> struck Nabal dead.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.38.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.39" /> <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, &#8220;Blessed be the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> who championed my cause against Nabal&#8217;s insults<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.39.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> and restrained his servant from doing evil.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.39.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> brought Nabal&#8217;s evil deeds back on his own head.&#8221;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.39.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a></p><p class="scripture">Then David sent messengers to speak to Abigail about marrying him. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.40" /> <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>When David&#8217;s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, &#8220;David sent us to bring you to him as a wife.&#8221;</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.41" /> <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>She stood up, paid homage with her face to the ground,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.41.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> and said, &#8220;Here I am, your servant, a slave to wash the feet of my lord&#8217;s servants.&#8221;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.41.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.42" /> <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>Then Abigail got up quickly, and with her five female servants accompanying her, rode on the donkey following David&#8217;s messengers.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.42.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> And so she became his wife.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.43" /> <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.43.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> and the two of them became his wives. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-1_Samuel.25.44" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>But Saul gave his daughter Michal, David&#8217;s wife, to Palti<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.44.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a> son of Laish, who was from Gallim.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.1_Samuel.25.44.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">&#8224;</span></a></p><br /><section id="footnotes-1_Samuel.25" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.1.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.1">25:1</a></span> LXX reads <span class="italic">to Maon</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.5.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.5">25:5</a></span> Or <span class="italic">Nabal, ask him for peace</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.6.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.6">25:6</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">&#8216;To life</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.7.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.7">25:7</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">you have shearers</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.8.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.8">25:8</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">good</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.9.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.9">25:9</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">name</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.9.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.9">25:9</a></span> LXX reads <span class="italic">and he became arrogant</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.17.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.17">25:17</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">Now know and see</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.18.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.18">25:18</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">sheep, five seahs</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.22.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.22">25:22</a></span> LXX; MT reads <span class="italic">David&#8217;s enemies</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.22.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.22">25:22</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">of those of his who are urinating against the wall</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.25.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.25">25:25</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">for as is his name is, so he is</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.25.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.25">25:25</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">and foolishness is with him</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.28.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.28">25:28</a></span> Or <span class="italic">trouble</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.29.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.29">25:29</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">bundle</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.34.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.34">25:34</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">had anyone urinating against a wall</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.36.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.36">25:36</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">Nabal&#8217;s heart was good on him</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.36.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.36">25:36</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">anything at all </span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.37.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.37">25:37</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">when the wine had gone out of Nabal</span></aside><aside id="fn.1_Samuel.25.37.2"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.37">25:37</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">Then his heart died within him</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-1_Samuel.25" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.1">25:1</a></span> 1Sm 28:3</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.1">25:1</a></span> Dt 34:8</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.1.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.1">25:1</a></span> 2Kg 21:18; 2Ch 33:20</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.1.4"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.1">25:1</a></span> Gn 21:21; Nm 10:12; 13:3</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.2">25:2</a></span> 1Sm 23:24</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.2.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.2">25:2</a></span> Jos 15:55</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.3">25:3</a></span> Jos 15:13; 1Sm 30:14</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.6">25:6</a></span> 1Ch 12:18</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.7">25:7</a></span> 1Sm 23:24&#8211;25; 25:15&#8211;16</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.8.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.8">25:8</a></span> Neh 8:10&#8211;12</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.10.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.10">25:10</a></span> Jdg 9:28</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.13">25:13</a></span> 1Sm 23:13; 30:9&#8211;10</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.14">25:14</a></span> 1Sm 13:10; 15:13</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.15.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.15">25:15</a></span> 1Sm 25:7,21</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.16.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.16">25:16</a></span> Ex 14:22</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.18.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.18">25:18</a></span> 2Sm 16:1; 1Ch 12:40</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.19.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.19">25:19</a></span> Gn 32:16,20</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.22.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.22">25:22</a></span> 1Sm 3:17; 20:13</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.22.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.22">25:22</a></span> 1Kg 14:10</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.23.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.23">25:23</a></span> 1Sm 20:41</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.26.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.26">25:26</a></span> Heb 10:30</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.26.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.26">25:26</a></span> 2Sm 18:32</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.27.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.27">25:27</a></span> Gn 33:11; 1Sm 30:26</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.28.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.28">25:28</a></span> 1Sm 25:24</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.28.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.28">25:28</a></span> 1Sm 2:35; 22:14; 2Sm 7:11,16</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.28.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.28">25:28</a></span> 1Sm 18:17</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.28.4"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.28">25:28</a></span> 1Sm 24:11; Ps 7:3</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.29.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.29">25:29</a></span> Jr 10:18</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.30.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.30">25:30</a></span> 1Sm 13:14</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.31.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.31">25:31</a></span> Gn 40:14; 1Sm 25:30</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.32.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.32">25:32</a></span> Ex 18:10</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.33.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.33">25:33</a></span> 1Sm 25:26</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.35.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.35">25:35</a></span> 1Sm 20:42; 2Kg 5:19</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.35.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.35">25:35</a></span> Gn 19:21</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.36.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.36">25:36</a></span> 2Sm 13:23</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.36.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.36">25:36</a></span> 1Sm 25:19</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.38.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.38">25:38</a></span> 1Sm 26:10</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.39.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.39">25:39</a></span> 1Sm 24:15</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.39.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.39">25:39</a></span> 1Sm 25:26,34</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.39.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.39">25:39</a></span> 2Sm 3:28&#8211;29</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.41.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.41">25:41</a></span> 1Sm 25:23</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.41.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.41">25:41</a></span> Mk 1:7</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.42.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.42">25:42</a></span> Gn 24:61&#8211;67</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.43.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.43">25:43</a></span> Jos 15:56</aside><aside id="xrf.1_Samuel.25.44.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-1_Samuel.25.44">25:44</a></span> 1Sm 18:27; 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