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Then they buried him at his home in Ramah.</span></p><h3 class="s">David and Abigail</h3><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_1">After this, David went to the wilderness of Paran. </span><span class="v9_25_2"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.2-1Sam.25.3" class="v9_25_2">2-3</span>There was a man of the clan of Caleb named Nabal, who was from the town of Maon, and who owned land near the town of Carmel. He was a very rich man, the owner of three thousand sheep and one thousand goats. His wife Abigail was beautiful and intelligent, but he was a mean, bad-tempered man.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_2">Nabal was shearing his sheep in Carmel, </span><span class="v9_25_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.4" class="v9_25_4">4</span>and David, who was in the wilderness, heard about it, </span><span class="v9_25_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.5" class="v9_25_5">5</span>so he sent ten young men with orders to go to Carmel, find Nabal, and give him his greetings. </span><span class="v9_25_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.6" class="v9_25_6">6</span>He instructed them to say to Nabal: “David sends you greetings, my friend, with his best wishes for you, your family, and all that is yours. </span><span class="v9_25_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.7" class="v9_25_7">7</span>He heard that you were shearing your sheep, and he wants you to know that your shepherds have been with us and we did not harm them. Nothing that belonged to them was stolen all the time they were at Carmel. </span><span class="v9_25_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.8" class="v9_25_8">8</span>Just ask them, and they will tell you. We have come on a feast day, and David asks you to receive us kindly. Please give what you can to us your servants and to your dear friend David.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.9" class="v9_25_9">9</span>David's men delivered this message to Nabal in David's name. Then they waited there, </span><span class="v9_25_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.10" class="v9_25_10">10</span>and Nabal finally answered, “David? Who is he? I've never heard of him! The country is full of runaway slaves nowadays! </span><span class="v9_25_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.11" class="v9_25_11">11</span>I'm not going to take my bread and water, and the animals I have butchered for my sheepshearers, and give them to people who come from I don't know where!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.12" class="v9_25_12">12</span>David's men went back to him and told him what Nabal had said. </span><span class="v9_25_13"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.13" class="v9_25_13">13</span>“Buckle on your swords!” he ordered, and they all did. David also buckled on his sword and left with about four hundred of his men, leaving two hundred behind with the supplies.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_14"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.14" class="v9_25_14">14</span>One of Nabal's servants said to Nabal's wife Abigail, “Have you heard? David sent some messengers from the wilderness with greetings for our master, but he insulted them. </span><span class="v9_25_15"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.15" class="v9_25_15">15</span>Yet they were very good to us; they never bothered us, and all the time we were with them in the fields, nothing that belonged to us was stolen. </span><span class="v9_25_16"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.16" class="v9_25_16">16</span>They protected us day and night the whole time we were with them looking after our flocks. </span><span class="v9_25_17"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.17" class="v9_25_17">17</span>Please think this over and decide what to do. This could be disastrous for our master and all his family. He is so mean that he won't listen to anybody!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_18"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.18" class="v9_25_18">18</span>Abigail quickly gathered two hundred loaves of bread, two leather bags full of wine, five roasted sheep, two bushels of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dried figs, and loaded them on donkeys. </span><span class="v9_25_19"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.19" class="v9_25_19">19</span>Then she said to the servants, “You go on ahead and I will follow you.” But she said nothing to her husband.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_20"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.20" class="v9_25_20">20</span>She was riding her donkey around a bend on a hillside when suddenly she met David and his men coming toward her. </span><span class="v9_25_21"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.21" class="v9_25_21">21</span>David had been thinking, “Why did I ever protect that fellow's property out here in the wilderness? Not a thing that belonged to him was stolen, and this is how he pays me back for the help I gave him! </span><span class="v9_25_22"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.22" class="v9_25_22">22</span>May God strike me<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.25.22!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> dead if I don't kill every last one of those men before morning!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_23"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.23" class="v9_25_23">23</span>When Abigail saw David, she quickly dismounted and threw herself on the ground </span><span class="v9_25_24"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.24" class="v9_25_24">24</span>at David's feet, and said to him, “Please, sir, listen to me! Let me take the blame. </span><span class="v9_25_25"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.25" class="v9_25_25">25</span>Please, don't pay any attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing! He is exactly what his name means—a fool!<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.25.25!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> I wasn't there when your servants arrived, sir. </span><span class="v9_25_26"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.26" class="v9_25_26">26</span>It is the <span class="nd">Lord</span> who has kept you from taking revenge and killing your enemies. And now I swear to you by the living <span class="nd">Lord</span> that your enemies and all who want to harm you will be punished like Nabal. </span><span class="v9_25_27"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.27" class="v9_25_27">27</span>Please, sir, accept this present I have brought you, and give it to your men. </span><span class="v9_25_28"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.28" class="v9_25_28">28</span>Please forgive me, sir, for any wrong I have done. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will make you king, and your descendants also, because you are fighting his battles; and you will not do anything evil<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.25.28!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> as long as you live. </span><span class="v9_25_29"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.29" class="v9_25_29">29</span>If anyone should attack you and try to kill you, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God will keep you safe, as someone guards a precious treasure. As for your enemies, however, he will throw them away, as someone hurls stones with a sling. </span><span class="v9_25_30"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.30" class="v9_25_30">30</span>And when the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has done all the good things he has promised you and has made you king of Israel, </span><span class="v9_25_31"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.31" class="v9_25_31">31</span>then you will not have to feel regret or remorse, sir, for having killed without cause or for having taken your own revenge. And when the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has blessed you, sir, please do not forget me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_32"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.32" class="v9_25_32">32</span>David said to her, “Praise the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me! </span><span class="v9_25_33"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.33" class="v9_25_33">33</span>Thank God for your good sense and for what you have done today in keeping me from the crime of murder and from taking my own revenge. </span><span class="v9_25_34"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.34" class="v9_25_34">34</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has kept me from harming you. But I swear by the living God of Israel that if you had not hurried to meet me, all of Nabal's men would have been dead by morning!” </span><span class="v9_25_35"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.35" class="v9_25_35">35</span>Then David accepted what she had brought him and said to her, “Go back home and don't worry. I will do what you want.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_36"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.36" class="v9_25_36">36</span>Abigail went back to Nabal, who was at home having a feast fit for a king. He was drunk and in a good mood, so she did not tell him anything until the next morning. </span><span class="v9_25_37"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.37" class="v9_25_37">37</span>Then, after he had sobered up, she told him everything. He suffered a stroke and was completely paralyzed. </span><span class="v9_25_38"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.38" class="v9_25_38">38</span>Some ten days later the <span class="nd">Lord</span> struck Nabal and he died.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_39"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.39" class="v9_25_39">39</span>When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praise the <span class="nd">Lord</span>! He has taken revenge on Nabal for insulting me and has kept me his servant from doing wrong. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has punished Nabal for his evil.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_39">Then David sent a proposal of marriage to Abigail. </span><span class="v9_25_40"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.40" class="v9_25_40">40</span>His servants went to her at Carmel and said to her, “David sent us to take you to him to be his wife.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_41"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.41" class="v9_25_41">41</span>Abigail bowed down to the ground and said, “I am his servant, ready to wash the feet of his servants.” </span><span class="v9_25_42"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.42" class="v9_25_42">42</span>She rose quickly and mounted her donkey. Accompanied by her five maids, she went with David's servants and became his wife.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_25_43"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.43" class="v9_25_43">43</span>David had married Ahinoam from Jezreel, and now Abigail also became his wife. </span><span class="v9_25_44"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.25.44" class="v9_25_44">44</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.25.44!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span>-</span></a> Meanwhile, Saul had given his daughter Michal, who had been David's wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from the town of Gallim.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">25.22: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">me; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">my enemies.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">25.25: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">a fool: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This is the meaning of the Hebrew name Nabal.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">25.28: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">you will not do anything evil; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">no evil will happen to you.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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