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Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran. <a href="/nlt/1_samuel/25.htm">New Living Translation</a> Now Samuel died, and all Israel gathered for his funeral. They buried him at his house in Ramah. Then David moved down to the wilderness of Maon. <a href="/esv/1_samuel/25.htm">English Standard Version</a> Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/bsb/1_samuel/25.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran. <a href="/kjv/1_samuel/25.htm">King James Bible</a> And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/nkjv/1_samuel/25.htm">New King James Version</a> Then Samuel died; and the Israelites gathered together and lamented for him, and buried him at his home in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the Wilderness of Paran. <a href="/nasb_/1_samuel/25.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Then Samuel died; and all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him at his house in Ramah. And David set out and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/nasb/1_samuel/25.htm">NASB 1995</a> Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/nasb77/1_samuel/25.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/lsb/1_samuel/25.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and lamented for him and buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/amp/1_samuel/25.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Now Samuel died; and all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him at his house in Ramah. Then David left and went down to the Wilderness of Paran. <a href="/csb/1_samuel/25.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Samuel died, and all Israel assembled to mourn for him, and they buried him by his home in Ramah. David then went down to the Wilderness of Paran. <a href="/hcsb/1_samuel/25.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Samuel died, and all Israel assembled to mourn for him, and they buried him by his home in Ramah. David then went down to the Wilderness of Paran. <a href="/asv/1_samuel/25.htm">American Standard Version</a> And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/cev/1_samuel/25.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Samuel died, and people from all over Israel gathered to mourn for him when he was buried at his home in Ramah. Meanwhile, David moved his camp to Paran Desert. <a href="/erv/1_samuel/25.htm">English Revised Version</a> And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/gwt/1_samuel/25.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Samuel died, and all Israel gathered to mourn for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David went to the desert of Paran. <a href="/gnt/1_samuel/25.htm">Good News Translation</a> Samuel died, and all the Israelites came together and mourned for him. Then they buried him at his home in Ramah. After this, David went to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/isv/1_samuel/25.htm">International Standard Version</a> Samuel died and all Israel assembled to mourn for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. David got up and went down to the Wilderness of Paran. <a href="/msb/1_samuel/25.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran. <a href="/net/1_samuel/25.htm">NET Bible</a> Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David left and went down to the desert of Paran. <a href="/nheb/1_samuel/25.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Maon. <a href="/wbt/1_samuel/25.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And 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. <a href="/web/1_samuel/25.htm">World English Bible</a> Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/1_samuel/25.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And Samuel dies, and all Israel is gathered, and mourns for him, and buries him in his house, in Ramah; and David rises and goes down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/ylt/1_samuel/25.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And Samuel dieth, and all Israel are gathered, and mourn for him, and bury him in his house, in Ramah; and David riseth and goeth down unto the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/slt/1_samuel/25.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And Samuel will die; and all Israel will assemble together and lament for him, and bury him in his house in Ramah. And David will rise and go down to the desert of Paran.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/1_samuel/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And Samuel died, and all Israel was gathered together, and they mourned for him, and buried him in his house in Ramatha. And David rose and went down into the wilderness of Pharan. <a href="/cpdv/1_samuel/25.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Then Samuel died, and all of Israel gathered together, and they mourned him. And they buried him at his house in Ramah. And David, rising up, descended to the desert of Paran. <a href="/nabre/1_samuel/25.htm">New American Bible</a> Samuel died, and all Israel gathered to mourn him; they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/nrsvce/1_samuel/25.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Now Samuel died; and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/1_samuel/25.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> AND Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him in his grave at Ramtha. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/hpbt/1_samuel/25.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And Shemueil died and all Israel was assembled and they mourned for him, and they buried him in his tomb in Ramtha. And David arose and came down to the wilderness of Paran<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/1_samuel/25.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. <a href="/sep/1_samuel/25.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> 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. <a href="/parallel/1_samuel/25-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H8oQfYUMRZg?start=7290" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/1_samuel/25.htm">The Death of Samuel</a> 1<a href="/hebrew/8050.htm" title="8050: šə·mū·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- Name of God, a prophet of Isr. From the passive participle of shama' and 'el; heard of God; Shemuel, the name of three Israelites.">When Samuel</a> <a href="/hebrew/4191.htm" title="4191: way·yā·māṯ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To die. A primitive root: to die; causatively, to kill.">died,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: ḵāl (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/6908.htm" title="6908: way·yiq·qā·ḇə·ṣū (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To gather, collect. A primitive root; to grasp, i.e. Collect.">gathered</a> <a href="/hebrew/5594.htm" title="5594: way·yis·pə·ḏū- (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- A primitive root; properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts; generally to lament; by implication, to wail.">to mourn</a> <a href="/hebrew/lōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- ">for him;</a> <a href="/hebrew/6912.htm" title="6912: way·yiq·bə·ru·hū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp:: 3ms) -- To bury. A primitive root; to intern.">and they buried him</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bə·ḇê·ṯōw (Prep-b:: N-msc:: 3ms) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">at his home</a> <a href="/hebrew/7414.htm" title="7414: bā·rā·māh (Prep-b, Art:: N-proper-fs) -- Height, the name of several places in Isr. The same as ramah; Ramah, the name of four places in Palestine.">in Ramah.</a> <a href="/hebrew/1732.htm" title="1732: dā·wiḏ (N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps beloved one, a son of Jesse. Rarely; Daviyd; from the same as dowd; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse.">Then David</a> <a href="/hebrew/6965.htm" title="6965: way·yā·qām (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To arise, stand up, stand. A primitive root; to rise.">set out</a> <a href="/hebrew/3381.htm" title="3381: way·yê·reḏ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To come or go down, descend. ">and went down</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/4057.htm" title="4057: miḏ·bar (N-msc) -- A pasture, a desert, speech. From dabar in the sense of driving; a pasture; by implication, a desert; also speech.">the Wilderness</a> <a href="/hebrew/6290.htm" title="6290: pā·rān (N-proper-fs) -- A place in Sinai. From pa'ar; ornamental; Paran, a desert of Arabia.">of Paran.</a> <div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/acts/13-20.htm">Acts 13:20-21</a> All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. / Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years. <a href="/acts/13-22.htm">Acts 13:22</a> After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’ <a href="/acts/3-24.htm">Acts 3:24</a> Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days. <a href="/acts/7-45.htm">Acts 7:45-47</a> And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David, / who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob. / But it was Solomon who built the house for Him. <a href="/hebrews/11-32.htm">Hebrews 11:32</a> And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, <a href="/matthew/5-12.htm">Matthew 5:12</a> Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you. <a href="/james/5-10.htm">James 5:10</a> Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. <a href="/luke/16-16.htm">Luke 16:16</a> The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. <a href="/john/11-25.htm">John 11:25</a> Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. <a href="/romans/15-4.htm">Romans 15:4</a> For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope. <a href="/2_peter/1-21.htm">2 Peter 1:21</a> For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. <a href="/1_chronicles/29-29.htm">1 Chronicles 29:29</a> Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are indeed written in the Chronicles of Samuel the Seer, the Chronicles of Nathan the Prophet, and the Chronicles of Gad the Seer, <a href="/1_kings/2-10.htm">1 Kings 2:10</a> Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. <a href="/1_kings/2-11.htm">1 Kings 2:11</a> The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">1 Samuel 28:3</a> Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.A.<a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">1 Samuel 28:3</a> Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.lamented<a href="/genesis/50-11.htm">Genesis 50:11</a> And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.<a href="/numbers/20-29.htm">Numbers 20:29</a> And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.<a href="/deuteronomy/34-8.htm">Deuteronomy 34:8</a> And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.in this house<a href="/1_samuel/7-17.htm">1 Samuel 7:17</a> And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.<a href="/1_kings/2-34.htm">1 Kings 2:34</a> So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.<a href="/2_chronicles/33-20.htm">2 Chronicles 33:20</a> So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.the wilderness<a href="/genesis/14-6.htm">Genesis 14:6</a> And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.<a href="/genesis/21-21.htm">Genesis 21:21</a> And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.<a href="/numbers/10-12.htm">Numbers 10:12</a> And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_samuel/17-2.htm">Assembled</a> <a href="/1_samuel/18-4.htm">Body</a> <a href="/ruth/1-17.htm">Buried</a> <a href="/joshua/24-33.htm">Bury</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-22.htm">David</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-18.htm">Death</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-1.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/1_samuel/15-35.htm">Died</a> <a href="/ruth/1-3.htm">Dieth</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-22.htm">Home</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-22.htm">House</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-20.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_samuel/17-53.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/1_samuel/7-2.htm">Lamented</a> <a href="/1_samuel/16-1.htm">Mourn</a> <a href="/1_samuel/15-35.htm">Mourned</a> <a href="/1_samuel/17-48.htm">Moved</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/33-2.htm">Paran</a> <a href="/1_samuel/22-6.htm">Ramah</a> <a href="/ruth/3-1.htm">Resting-Place</a> <a href="/1_samuel/23-16.htm">Riseth</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-8.htm">Rose</a> <a href="/1_samuel/19-24.htm">Samuel</a> <a href="/1_samuel/22-2.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/1_samuel/23-8.htm">Together</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-1.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-16.htm">Weeping</a> <a href="/1_samuel/24-1.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_samuel/28-4.htm">Assembled</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Body</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Buried</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Bury</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-4.htm">David</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-38.htm">Death</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-4.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-37.htm">Died</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-37.htm">Dieth</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-35.htm">Home</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-3.htm">House</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-30.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_samuel/27-12.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Lamented</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Mourn</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Mourned</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-5.htm">Moved</a> <a href="/1_kings/11-18.htm">Paran</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Ramah</a> <a href="/2_samuel/2-4.htm">Resting-Place</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-41.htm">Riseth</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-41.htm">Rose</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Samuel</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-4.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-1.htm">Together</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-4.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Weeping</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-4.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">1 Samuel 25</div>1. <a href="/1_samuel/25-1.htm">Samuel dies</a> 2. <a href="/1_samuel/25-2.htm">David in Paran sends to Nabal</a> 10. <a href="/1_samuel/25-10.htm">Provoked by Nabal's rudeness, he minds to destroy him</a> 14. <a href="/1_samuel/25-14.htm">Abigail understanding thereof</a> 18. <a href="/1_samuel/25-18.htm">takes a present</a> 23. <a href="/1_samuel/25-23.htm">and by her wisdom</a> 32. <a href="/1_samuel/25-32.htm">pacifies David</a> 36. <a href="/1_samuel/25-36.htm">Nabal hearing thereof, dies</a> 39. <a href="/1_samuel/25-39.htm">David takes Abigail and Ahinoam to be his wives</a> 44. <a href="/1_samuel/25-44.htm">Michal is given to Phalti</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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His death marked the end of an era of direct divine leadership through judges. Samuel's role in anointing both Saul and David as kings highlights his importance in the transition from the period of the judges to the monarchy. His death would have been a moment of national mourning, as he was a respected leader who had guided Israel spiritually and politically.all Israel gathered to mourn for him The gathering of "all Israel" indicates the widespread respect and influence Samuel had across the tribes. Mourning customs in ancient Israel included lamentation, fasting, and wearing sackcloth. This collective mourning underscores the unity of the nation in recognizing Samuel's impact. It also reflects the cultural importance of communal expressions of grief for significant leaders.and they buried him at his home in Ramah Ramah, Samuel's birthplace and home, was located in the hill country of Ephraim. It was a central location for his ministry and served as a base for his circuit as a judge. The burial at his home signifies a return to his roots and the honor given to him by being laid to rest in his own land. This practice was common in ancient Israel, where family burial sites were often located on ancestral property.Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran David's departure to the Wilderness of Paran follows the tension with Saul, who sought his life. The Wilderness of Paran is a desert region south of Judah, providing a strategic location for David to evade Saul's pursuit. This movement also reflects David's status as a fugitive and his reliance on God for protection. The wilderness experience is a recurring theme in the Bible, often symbolizing a place of testing and preparation, as seen in the lives of Moses and Jesus.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/s/samuel.htm">Samuel</a> A prophet and judge of Israel, Samuel was instrumental in the transition from the period of judges to the establishment of the monarchy. He anointed both Saul and David as kings of Israel. His death marks the end of an era of direct prophetic leadership. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The nation of God's chosen people, who gathered to mourn Samuel's death, indicating his significant influence and leadership. 3. <a href="/topical/r/ramah.htm">Ramah</a> Samuel's hometown, where he was buried. It was a central location in his ministry and a place of spiritual significance. 4. <a href="/topical/d/david.htm">David</a> The future king of Israel, who was anointed by Samuel. His departure to the Wilderness of Paran signifies a period of transition and preparation for his future role as king. 5. <a href="/topical/w/wilderness_of_paran.htm">Wilderness of Paran</a> A desert region where David sought refuge. This location is significant for its association with testing and preparation, similar to other biblical wilderness experiences.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_legacy_of_faithful_leadership.htm">The Legacy of Faithful Leadership</a> Samuel's life and death remind us of the impact a faithful leader can have on a nation. His influence continued even after his death, as seen in the mourning of all Israel. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_mourning_and_reflection.htm">The Importance of Mourning and Reflection</a> The collective mourning of Israel underscores the importance of taking time to grieve and reflect on the lives of those who have significantly impacted our spiritual journey. <a href="/topical/t/transitions_in_god's_plan.htm">Transitions in God's Plan</a> David's move to the Wilderness of Paran signifies a period of transition. In our lives, God often uses times of change to prepare us for future roles and responsibilities. <a href="/topical/s/seeking_god_in_the_wilderness.htm">Seeking God in the Wilderness</a> Just as David sought refuge in the wilderness, we are called to seek God during our own times of trial and uncertainty, trusting in His provision and guidance.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_samuel_25.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Samuel 25</a> <a href="/q/who_is_the_author_of_1_samuel.htm">Who is the author of 1 Samuel?</a> <a href="/q/key_events_in_samuel's_life.htm">What were the key events in Samuel's life?</a> <a href="/q/1_samuel_25_39-42__why_did_david_marry_abigail_so_soon.htm">1 Samuel 25:39-42 - How do we reconcile David marrying Abigail immediately after Nabal's death with biblical laws and cultural norms on mourning and remarriage?</a> <a href="/q/why_did_david_threaten_violence_here.htm">1 Samuel 25:21-22 - Why would David, future king, threaten such violence over a refusal of hospitality, seemingly contradicting biblical ethics of mercy?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_samuel/25.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(1) And Samuel died.--At this period--namely, about the time when Saul and David met at En-gedi--died Samuel, full of years and honour--perhaps rather than honours, for a long time the old prophet had lived apart from the court, and alienated from the king he had chosen and anointed. Since Moses, none so great as Samuel had arisen. Briefly to recapitulate his work: his influence had in great measure restored the Law of Moses to the affections of the people. Before his time, the words and traditions which the great lawgiver, amidst the supernatural terrors of Sinai, had with some success impressed upon the great nomadic tribe of the Beni-Israel were almost forgotten; and the people among whom, for a long period, no really great leader had sprung up were becoming rapidly mixed up, and soon would have been hardly distinguished from the warlike tribes of Canaan in the neighbouring countries. But Samuel, aided by his great natural genius, but far more by the Glorious Arm, on which he leaned with a changeless trust from childhood to extreme old age, quickened into life again the dying traditions of the race, and taught them who they--the down-trodden Israelites--really were--the chosen of God. He restored the forgotten laws of Moses, by the keeping of which they once became great and powerful, and by the creation of an earthly monarchy he welded into one the separate interests of the twelve divisions of the race; so that from Dan to Beersheba there was but one chief, one standard. But his greatest work was the foundation of the Prophetic Schools, in which men were trained and educated carefully, with the view of the pupils becoming in their turn the teachers and guides of the people. (These schools, which exercised so great an influence upon the future of Israel, and their especial character have been already discussed.)And all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him.--"When the hour of his death came, we are told, with a peculiar emphasis of expression, that all the Israelites--not one portion or fragment only, as might have been expected in that time of division and confusion--were gathered together round him who had been the father of all alike, and lamented him, and buried him, not in any sacred spot or secluded sepulchre, but in the midst of the home which he had consecrated only by his own long, unblemished career in his house at Ramah."--Stanley, Jewish Church, Lect. 18 Josephus makes especial mention of the public funeral honours paid to the great prophet. "They wept for him a very great number of days, not looking on it as a sorrow for the death of another man, but as that in which they were all concerned. He was a righteous man, and gentle in his nature, and on that account he was very dear to God."--Antt. vi. 13, ? 5. F. W. Krummacher beautifully writes on this public lamentation. "It was as if from the noble star, as long as it shone in the heaven of the Holy Land, though veiled by clouds, there streamed a mild, beneficial light over all Israel; now the light was extinguished in Israel." It is probable by "in his house," the court or garden attached to the prophet's house is signified. To have buried him literally in his house would have occasioned perpetual ceremonial defilement. We read also of Manasseh the king being "buried in his own house" (<a href="/2_chronicles/33-20.htm" title="So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.">2Chronicles 33:20</a>), which is explained in <a href="/2_kings/21-18.htm" title="And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.">2Kings 21:18</a> by the words, "in the garden of his own house." In modern times Samuel's grave is pointed out in a cave underneath the floor of the Mahommedan Mosque on Nebi Samuel, a lofty peak above Gibeon, which still bears his honoured name. There is, however, a tradition that his remains--or what purported to be his remains--were removed with royal pomp from Ramah to Constantinople by the Emperor Arcadius, at the beginning of the fifth century.The wilderness of Paran.--The LXX. (Vatican) read "Maon" instead of "Paran," not conceiving it probable that the scene of David's camp would be so far removed from Maon and Carmel, the localities where the following events took place. "Paran" is properly the south of the Arabian peninsula, west of Sinai; "but it seems to have given its name to the vast extent of pasture and barren land now known as the Desert of El Tih. Of this the wilderness of Judah and Beersheba would virtually form part, without the borders being strictly defined. The LXX. emendation, therefore, is quite unnecessary.--Dean Payne Smith.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_samuel/25.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 1. - And Samuel died. According to Josephus, Samuel had for eighteen years been contemporaneous with Saul's kingdom. If this calculation, which probably rests upon some Jewish tradition, be at all correct, we must include the years of Samuel's judgeship in the sum total of Saul's reign (see on 1 Samuel 13:1), as evidently his fall was now fast approaching. Samuel's life marked the beginning of the second age of Israelite history (<a href="/acts/3-24.htm">Acts 3:24</a>). Moses had given the people their law, but Samuel in the schools of the prophets provided for them that education without which a written law was powerless, and called forth also and regulated that living energy in the prophetic order which, claiming an all but equal authority, modified and developed it, and continually increased its breadth and force, until the last prophet, Jesus of Nazareth, with supreme and Divine power reenacted it as the religion of the whole world. And as neither his educational institutions nor the prophetic order, whose ordinary duties were closely connected with these schools, could have flourished without internal quietness and security, Samuel also established the Jewish monarchy, which was ideally also necessary, because the Messiah must not only be priest and prophet, but before all things a king (<a href="/matthew/2-1.htm">Matthew 2:1, 6</a>; <a href="/john/18-37.htm">John 18:37</a>). And side by side with the kingdom he lived on to see the military successes of the first king, and the firm establishment of the royal power; but to witness also the development of that king into a despot, the overclouding of his mind with fits of madness, the designation of his successor, the probation of that successor by manifold trials, his ripening fitness under them to be the model of a theocratic king, and his growth in power so as practically to be now safe from all Saul's evil purposes. And so in the fulness of time Samuel died, and all Israel gathered together and made lamentation for him (see <a href="/genesis/1-10.htm">Genesis 1:10</a>), and buried him in his house. The tomb at present shown as that of Samuel is situated upon a lofty hill, the identification of which with Ramah is very uncertain. Probably he was buried not actually in his house, as that would lead to perpetual ceremonial defilement (<a href="/numbers/19-16.htm">Numbers 19:16</a>; <a href="/luke/11-44.htm">Luke 11:44</a>), but in some open spot in his garden (comp. <a href="/2_kings/21-18.htm">2 Kings 21:18</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/33-20.htm">2 Chronicles 33:20</a>). So Joab was buried in his own house (<a href="/1_kings/2-34.htm">1 Kings 2:34</a>). At Ramah. Thenius thinks that the prophets shared with the kings the right of intramural burial. DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN (vers. 1-42). DAVID ASKS A GIFT OF THE WEALTHY NABAL AND IS REFUSED (vers. 1-13). Verse 1. - David arose. This is not to be connected with the death of Samuel, as though David had now lost a protector. But as he had fully 600 men with him, and his force was continually increasing, it was necessary for him to roam over a wide extent of country in order to obtain supplies of food. The wilderness of Paran. Paran strictly is a place in the southernmost part of the peninsula of Arabia, a little to the west of Mount Sinai; but there can be little doubt that it gave its name to the vast extent of pasture and barren land now known as the desert of El-Tih (see <a href="/1_kings/11-18.htm">1 Kings 11:18</a>). Of this the wildernesses of Judah and Beersheba would virtually form parts without the borders being strictly defined. We need not therefore read "the wilderness of Maon," with the Septuagint and many commentators. On the contrary, we have seen that the hold in ch. 24:22 was the hill Hachilah in that neighbourhood, and David now moved southward towards the edge of this vast wilderness. <a href="/commentaries/1_samuel/25-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>When Samuel שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל (šə·mū·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8050.htm">Strong's 8050: </a> Samuel -- 'name of God', a prophet of Israel died, וַיָּ֣מָת (way·yā·māṯ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4191.htm">Strong's 4191: </a> To die, to kill all כָל־ (ḵāl) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every Israel יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc gathered וַיִּקָּבְצ֤וּ (way·yiq·qā·ḇə·ṣū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6908.htm">Strong's 6908: </a> To gather, collect to mourn וַיִּסְפְּדוּ־ (way·yis·pə·ḏū-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5594.htm">Strong's 5594: </a> To tear the hair and beat the breasts, to lament, to wail for him; ל֔וֹ (lōw) Preposition | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> and they buried him וַיִּקְבְּרֻ֥הוּ (way·yiq·bə·ru·hū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6912.htm">Strong's 6912: </a> To inter at his home בְּבֵית֖וֹ (bə·ḇê·ṯōw) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house in Ramah. בָּרָמָ֑ה (bā·rā·māh) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7414.htm">Strong's 7414: </a> Ramah -- 'height', the name of several places in Israel Then David דָּוִ֔ד (dā·wiḏ) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1732.htm">Strong's 1732: </a> David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse set out וַיָּ֣קָם (way·yā·qām) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6965.htm">Strong's 6965: </a> To arise, stand up, stand and went down וַיֵּ֖רֶד (way·yê·reḏ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3381.htm">Strong's 3381: </a> To come or go down, descend to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to the Wilderness מִדְבַּ֥ר (miḏ·bar) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4057.htm">Strong's 4057: </a> A pasture, a desert, speech of Paran. פָּארָֽן׃ (pā·rān) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6290.htm">Strong's 6290: </a> Paran -- a place in Sinai <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/1_samuel/25-1.htm">1 Samuel 25:1 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-1.htm">OT History: 1 Samuel 25:1 Samuel died (1Sa iSam 1 Sam i sa) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_samuel/24-22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Samuel 24:22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 24:22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_samuel/25-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Samuel 25:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 25:2" /></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="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>