These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 25
Tanakh 44 verses
- 1 And died; and all gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
- 2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- 3 Now the of the man was Nabal; and the of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful form; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of .
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And heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
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And sent ten young men, and said unto the young men: ‘Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my ;
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- 6 and thus ye shall say: All hail! and be both unto thee, and be to thy house, and be unto all that thou hast.
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And now I have heard that thou hast shearers; thy shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there aught missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
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Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee; wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes; for we come on a good day; give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thy hand, unto thy servants, and to thy son .’
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And when David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the of , and ceased.
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- 10 And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said: ‘Who is ? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master;
- 11 shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men of whom I not whence they are?’
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So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.
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- 13 And said unto his men: ‘Gird ye on every man his sword.’ And they girded on every man his sword; and also girded on his sword; and there went up after about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.
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But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying: ‘Behold, sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he flew upon them.
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But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields;
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they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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- 17 Now therefore and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a base fellow, that one cannot speak to him.’
- 18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
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And she said unto her young men: ‘Go on before me; behold, I come after you.’ But she told not her husband Nabal.
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And it was so, as she rode on her ass, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that, behold, and his men came down towards her; and she met them.—
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- 21 Now had said: ‘Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him; and he hath returned me evil for good.
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do so unto the enemies of , and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one male.’—
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And when Abigail saw , she made haste, and alighted from her ass, and fell before on her , and bowed down to the ground.
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- 24 And she fell at his feet, and said: ‘Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity; and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and thou the words of thy handmaid.
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Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this base fellow, even Nabal; for as his is, so is he: Nabal is his , and churlishness is with him; but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
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- 26 Now therefore, my lord, as liveth, and as thy liveth, seeing hath withholden thee from bloodguiltiness, and from finding redress for thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
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And now this present which thy hath brought unto my lord, let it be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
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Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid; for will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of ; and evil is not found in thee all thy days.
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2 Samuel 7:11 1 Samuel 18:17 1 Samuel 24:11 1 Kings 9:5 1 Chronicles 17:10 2 Samuel 7:27 2 Samuel 7:16 1 Chronicles 17:25 1 Samuel 25:24 Matthew 5:16 1 Samuel 17:47 1 Samuel 24:17 1 Kings 15:5 1 Samuel 24:6-7 Luke 23:47 Ephesians 6:10-11 1 Samuel 15:28 2 Chronicles 20:15 2 Samuel 5:2 Luke 23:41 Psalm 89:29 Psalm 119:1-3 - 29 And though man be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy , yet the of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with thy ; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
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And it shall come to pass, when shall have done to my lord according to all the good that He hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee prince over ;
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- 31 that this shall be no stumbling-block unto thee, nor offence of unto my lord, either that thou hast shed without cause, or that my lord hath found redress for himself. And when shall have dealt well with my lord, then thy handmaid.’
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And said to Abigail: ‘Blessed be , the of , who sent thee this day to meet me;
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- 33 and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from finding redress for myself with mine own hand.
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For in very deed, as , the of , liveth, who hath withholden me from hurting thee, except thou hadst made haste and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light so much as one male.’
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So received of her hand that which she had brought him; and he said unto her: ‘Go up in to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.’
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And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a ; and Nabal’s was merry within him, for he was very drunken; wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
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And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his died within him, and he became as a stone.
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- 38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that smote Nabal, so that he died.
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And when heard that Nabal was dead, he said: ‘Blessed be , that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept back His from evil; and the evil-doing of Nabal hath returned upon his own head.’ And sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
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And when the servants of were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke unto her, saying: ‘ hath sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.’
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And she arose, and bowed down with her to the earth, and said: ‘Behold, thy handmaid is a to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.’
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And Abigail hastened, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that followed her; and she went after the messengers of , and became his wife.
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also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both of them his wives.
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Now had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
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