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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Samuel 25 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/25.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/25-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > 1 Samuel 25</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/24.htm" title="1 Samuel 24">◄</a> 1 Samuel 25 <a href="../1_samuel/26.htm" title="1 Samuel 26">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/25-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Death of Samuel<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Samuel died, and all Israel assembled, and bewailed him, and they bury him in his house in Armathaim: and David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Maon.<p> <A name="3"></a><p class="hdg">David, Nabal, and Abigail<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And there was a man in Maon, and his flocks were in Carmel, and <i>he was</i> a very great man; and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand she-goats: and he happened to be shearing his flock in Carmel. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the man's name <i>was</i> Nabal, and his wife's name <i>was</i> Abigaia: and his wife <i>was</i> of good understanding and very beautiful in person: but the man <i>was</i> harsh, and evil in his doings, and the man <i>was</i> churlish. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal the Carmelite was shearing his sheep. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And David sent ten young men, and he said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and ask him in my name how he is. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And thus shall ye say, May thou and thy house seasonably prosper, and all thine be in prosperity. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And now, behold, I have heard that thy shepherds who were with is in the wilderness are shearing thy sheep, and we hindered them not, neither did we demand any thing from them all the time they were in Carmel. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Let then thy servants find grace in thine eyes, for we are come on a good day; give we pray thee, whatsoever thy hand may find, to thy son David.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So the servants come and speak these words to Nabal, according to all these words in the name of David. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Nabal sprang up, and answered the servants of David, and said, Who <i>is</i> David? and who <i>is</i> the son of Jessae? Now-a-days there is abundance of servants who depart every one from his master. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And shall I take my bread, and my wine, and my beasts that I have slain for my shearers, and shall I give them to men of whom I know not whence they are? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So the servants of David turned back, and returned, and came and reported to David according to these words. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And David said to his men, Gird on every man his sword. And they went up after David, about four hundred men: and two hundred abode with the stuff.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And one of the servants reported to Abigaia the wife of Nabal, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our lord; but he turned away from them. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the men were very good to us; they did not hinder us, neither did they demand from us any thing all the days that we were with them. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And when we were in the field, they were as a wall round about us, both by night and by day, all the days that we were with them feeding the flock. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And now do thou consider, and see what thou wilt do; for mischief is determined against our lord and against his house; and he <i>is</i> a vile character, and one cannot speak to him.<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">Abigail Intercedes for Nabal<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Abigaia hasted, and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five ephahs of fine flour, and one homer of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them upon asses. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And she said to her servants, Go on before me, and behold I come after you: but she told not her husband. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And it came to pass when she had mounted her ass and was going down by the covert of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down to meet her, and she met them. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And David said, Perhaps I have kept all his possessions in the wilderness that he should wrong me, and we did not order the taking anything of all his goods; yet he has rewarded me evil for good. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So God do to David and more also, if I leave one male of all that belong to Nabal until the morning.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Abigaia saw David, and she hasted and alighted from her ass; and she felt before David on her face, and did obeisance to him, <i>bowing</i> to the ground <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><i>even</i> to his feet, and said, On me, my lord, be my wrong: let, I pray thee, thy servant speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy servant. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let not my lord, I pray thee, take to heart this pestilent man, for according to his name, so is he; Nabal <i>is</i> his name, and folly <i>is</i> with him: but I thy handmaid saw not the servants of my lord whom thou didst send.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And now, my lord, <i>as</i> the Lord lives, and thy soul lives, as the Lord has kept thee from coming against innocent blood, and from executing vengeance for thyself, now therefore let thine enemies, and those that seek evil against my lord, become as Nabal. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And now accept this token of goodwill, which thy servant has brought to my lord, and thou shalt give it to the servants that wait on my lord. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Remove, I pray thee, the trespass of thy servant; for the Lord will surely make for my lord a sure house, for the Lord fights the battles of my lord, and there shall no evil be ever found in thee. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And <i>if</i> a man shall rise up persecuting thee and seeking thy life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and thou shalt whirl the life of thine enemies <i>as</i> in the midst of a sling. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And it shall be when the Lord shall have wrought for my lord all the good things he has spoken concerning thee, and shall appoint thee to be ruler over Israel; <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>then this shall not be an abomination and offence to my lord, to have shed innocent blood without cause, and for my lord to have avenged himself: and so may the Lord do good to my lord, and thou shalt remember thine handmaid to do her good.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And David said to Abigaia, Blessed <i>be</i> the Lord God of Israel, who sent thee this very day to meet me: <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and blessed <i>be</i> thy conduct, and blessed <i>be</i> thou, who hast hindered me this very day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who hindered me this day from doing thee harm, if thou hadst not hasted and come to meet me, then I said, There shall <i>surely</i> not be left to Nabal till the morning one male. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And David took of her hand all that she brought to him, and said to her, Go in peace to thy house: see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and accepted thy petition.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And Abigaia came to Nabal: and, behold, he had a banquet in this house, as the banquet of a king, and the heart of Nabal <i>was</i> merry within him, and he <i>was</i> very drunken: and she told him nothing great or small till the morning light. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And it came to pass in the morning, when Nabal recovered from his wine, his wife told him these words; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And it came to pass after about ten days, that the Lord smote Nabal, and he died.<p> <A name="40"></a><p class="hdg">David Marries Abigail<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And David heard it and said, Blessed <i>be</i> the Lord, who has judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has delivered his servant from the power of evil; and the Lord has returned the mischief of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigaia, to take her to himself for a wife. <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So the servants of David came to Abigaia to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to thee, to take thee to himself for a wife. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And she arose, and did reverence with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, thy servant <i>is</i> for an handmaid to wash the feet of thy servants. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And Abigaia arose, and mounted her ass, and five damsels followed her: and she went after the servants of David, and became his wife.<p> <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And David took Achinaam out of Jezrael, and they were both his wives.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/25-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And Saul gave Melchol his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Amis who was of Romma.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_samuel/24.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Samuel 24"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 24" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_samuel/26.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Samuel 26"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 26" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>