Day 106, 16 April 2025



1) 1 Samuel 25,26 , 1 Samuel 27:1-7 , 1 Chronicles 12:1-7

1 Samuel 27:8-12



1 SAMUEL 25



Death of Samuel



1 (Nu 20:29; Dt 34:8) Now Samuel died. And all the children of Israel

gathered together and mourned him, and they buried him at his home

in Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.



[1] 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.



David, Nabal, and Abigail



2 (Jos 15:55; 1Sa 23:24) Now there was a man in Maon whose work

was in Carmel. He was a rich man with three thousand sheep

and a thousand goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

3 The man's name was Nabal and the name of his wife Abigail.

She was a woman of good understanding and beautiful, but the man

was harsh and evil in his actions and he was a Calebite.

4 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

5 So David sent out ten young men, and David said to the young men,

"Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.

6 (1Ch 12:18; Lk 10:5) And thus you will you say to him who lives

in prosperity, 'Peace be to you and peace to your house,

and to all that you have, peace.

7 (1Sa 25:21) " 'I have heard that you have shearers. Now your shepherds

were with us. We did not harm them nor did they miss anything all the days

they were in Carmel.

8 (Est 9:19; Ne 8:10-12) Ask your young men and they will tell you.

Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come

on a good day. Please give whatever you find at hand to your servants,

and to your son David.' "

9 When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according

to all these words in the name of David, then they waited.

10 (Jdg 9:28) And Nabal answered David's servants, and said,

"Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today many servants

are breaking away each one from his master.

11 (Jdg 8:6) Should I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat,

that which I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men

whose origins are unknown?"

12 So David's young men turned themselves around and went back.

And they came and reported to him all these words.

13 (1Sa 23:13) David said to his men, "Each man strap on his sword."

And each man strapped on his sword. David also put on his sword,

and 400 men went up after David. But 200 stayed with the baggage.

14 Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, "Listen,

David sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our master;

and he railed against them.

15 (1Sa 25:7; 25:21) But the men were very good to us,

and we were not harmed, nor did we miss anything,

all the days we went about with them in the field.

16 (Job 1:10; Ex 14:22) They were a wall to us both by night and day,

all the days we were with them keeping the flocks.

17 (1Sa 20:7; Dt 13:13) Now therefore know and consider what you will do,

for evil is determined against our master and against all his household.

He is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him."

18 (2Sa 16:1) Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves,

two bottles of wine, five prepared sheep, five measures

[Likely about 60 pounds, or 27 kilograms.] of roasted grain,

a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs,

and she loaded them on donkeys.

19 (Ge 32:20; 32:16) And she said to her servants, "Go on before me.

See, I will be coming after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

20 And as she was riding on the donkey and going down into the cover

of the mountain, David and his men were coming down to meet her

and she met them.

21 (Pr 17:13) Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I guarded

all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed

of all that belonged to him. And he has returned me evil for good.

22 (1Sa 3:17; 20:13) So may God do unto the enemies of David

and more also, if by morning I leave even one male of all who belong to him."

23 (1Sa 20:41; Jos 15:18) When Abigail saw David, she hurriedly got down from

the donkey and fell before David upon her face. And she bowed herself

to the ground.

24 (2Sa 14:9) So she fell at his feet and said, "Against me alone, my lord,

is the guilt. Please let your handmaid speak in your ears, and hear the words

of your handmaid.

25 (1Sa 25:17) Please do not let my lord set his heart against

this worthless man, against Nabal. For as his name is, so is he.

Nabal is his name and folly is with him. But I, your handmaid,

did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

26 (2Sa 18:32; Ge 20:6) Now my lord, as the Lord lives,

and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from coming

in bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand,

now let your enemies, and those seeking to do evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

27 (Ge 33:11; 1Sa 30:26) Now let this blessing which your maidservant

has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

28 (1Sa 18:17; 2Sa 7:11) "Please forgive the transgression of your handmaid,

for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights

the battles of the Lord, and evil will not be found in you all your days.

29 (Jer 10:18) Even if a man rises to pursue you and to seek your life,

the life of my lord will be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord

your God. But the lives of your enemies He will sling out, as from

the hollow of a sling.

30 (1Sa 13:14) It will be, when the Lord does for my lord according to all

the good that He has spoken concerning you and has appointed you ruler

over Israel,

31 (Ge 40:14) that this will be no grief to you, nor an offense of heart to

my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord

has avenged himself. But when the Lord has dealt well with my lord,

then remember your handmaid."

32 (Lk 1:68; Ge 24:27) David said to Abigail, :Blessed be the Lord,

God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me.

33 (1Sa 25:26) And blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you

who have kept me this day from coming to shed blood and from avenging

myself with my own hand.

34 For as the Lord, the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me

from injuring you, if you had not hurried to come and meet me,

surely there would not have been left even one male to Nabal

by the morning light."

35 (Ge 19:21; 1Sa 20:42) So David received from her hand

what she had brought him and said to her, "Go up in peace to your house.

See, I have obeyed your voice, and have granted your request."

36 (1Sa 25:19; 2Sa 13:23) Abigail came to Nabal, and he was feasting

in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart

was merry within him, for he was

very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

37 But in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal,

his wife told him these things. And his heart died within him,

and he became as a stone.

38 (1Sa 26:10) And about ten days after that, the Lord struck Nabal

and he died.

39 (1Sa 25:26; 25:34) When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said,

"Blessed is the Lord, who has defended the cause of my reproach

from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil.

For the Lord has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head."

And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her as his wife.

40 When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel,

they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you to take you as his wife."

41 (Ru 2:10) She arose, and bowed herself on her face to the ground,

and said, "Here is your handmaid, a servant to wash the feet of the servants

of my lord."

42 (Ge 24:61-67) Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey

with her five young women who attended her.

And she went after the messengers of David and became his wife.

43 (Jos 15:56; 1Sa 27:3) David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel. So both of them

were his wives.

44 (1Sa 18:27; 2Sa 3:14) But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife,

to Paltiel the son of Laish who was from Gallim.