1 Samuel 25

¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 28:3Deut 34:8Num 20:292 Chr 33:20Acts 8:2Gen 21:21Num 10:121 Kgs 2:34Num 13:31 Sam 7:17

²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 23:24Gen 38:13Josh 15:55Luke 16:19-251 Sam 30:52 Sam 13:23-242 Sam 19:32Gen 13:2Gen 26:13Job 1:3

³Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 14:1Isa 32:5-7Prov 31:10Prov 31:30-31Ps 10:31 Sam 25:17Prov 31:261 Sam 25:10-111 Sam 30:14

⁴And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 13:23Gen 38:13

⁵And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 17:22Gen 43:23

⁶And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 12:18Ps 122:71 Tim 5:6Luke 10:52 Thess 3:16John 14:27Matt 10:12-131 Thess 3:82 Sam 18:28

⁷And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:211 Sam 25:15-161 Sam 22:2Isa 11:6-9Luke 3:14Phil 2:15Phil 4:8

⁸Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 9:19Neh 8:10-121 Sam 24:111 Sam 3:6Eccl 11:2Esth 9:22Luke 11:41Luke 14:12-14

⁹And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 14:72 Kgs 2:15Gen 8:4

¹⁰And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 9:281 Kgs 12:161 Sam 20:301 Sam 22:21 Sam 22:7-82 Sam 20:1Eccl 7:10Exod 5:2Isa 32:5Isa 32:7

¹¹Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 8:6Gal 6:101 Pet 4:91 Sam 24:131 Sam 25:14-151 Sam 25:32 Cor 6:9Deut 8:17Eccl 11:1-2Job 31:17

¹²So David’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 24:13Heb 13:17Isa 36:21-22

¹³And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 23:131 Sam 24:5-61 Sam 30:21-241 Sam 30:9-10Jas 1:19-20Josh 9:14Prov 14:29Prov 19:11Prov 19:2Prov 25:8

¹⁴But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 13:10Mark 15:29

¹⁵But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:211 Sam 25:7Phil 2:15

¹⁶They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 1:10Exod 14:22Zech 2:5Jer 15:20

¹⁷Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 20:7Deut 13:131 Kgs 21:101 Kgs 21:131 Sam 2:121 Sam 20:32-331 Sam 20:91 Sam 25:252 Chr 13:72 Chr 25:16

¹⁸Then 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 an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 16:1Matt 5:25Prov 18:16Prov 6:4-51 Chr 12:401 Sam 25:342 Sam 17:28-29Gen 32:13-20Gen 43:11-14Num 16:46-48

¹⁹And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 32:20Gen 32:16Prov 31:11-12Prov 31:27

²⁰And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 4:24

²¹Now David 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 requited me evil for good. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 17:13Eph 4:26Eph 4:31Rom 12:211 Pet 2:20-231 Pet 3:171 Thess 5:151 Pet 3:91 Sam 25:13Gen 44:4

²²So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 14:101 Sam 20:131 Sam 3:171 Kgs 21:211 Kgs 16:111 Sam 14:441 Sam 20:162 Kgs 9:8Ruth 1:17

²³And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 20:41Josh 15:18Judg 1:141 Sam 24:8

²⁴And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:282 Sam 14:9Esth 8:32 Kgs 4:37Phlm 1:18-192 Sam 14:12Gen 44:18Gen 44:33-34Matt 18:29

²⁵Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:17Mal 2:22 Sam 13:331 Sam 25:26Isa 42:25

²⁶Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 18:32Rom 12:19-20Gen 20:61 Sam 25:33-34Dan 4:19Heb 10:30Ps 18:47-48Ps 44:31 Sam 1:261 Sam 22:3

²⁷And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 30:26Gen 33:112 Kgs 5:151 Sam 25:422 Cor 9:52 Sam 16:2Judg 4:10

²⁸I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:172 Sam 7:111 Chr 17:251 Sam 24:111 Chr 17:101 Kgs 9:52 Sam 7:161 Kgs 15:51 Sam 15:281 Sam 17:47

²⁹Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:John 17:21Mal 3:17Matt 10:29-30Ps 116:151 Pet 1:51 Sam 2:9Jer 10:18John 17:23Ps 66:9Col 3:3-4

³⁰And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 13:141 Sam 15:281 Sam 23:17Ps 89:20

³¹That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 40:141 Sam 25:33Rom 12:191 Sam 24:151 Sam 25:401 Sam 26:232 Sam 22:48Luke 23:42Prov 5:12-13Ps 94:1

³²And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 1:68Exod 18:10Gen 24:27Ps 72:182 Cor 8:16Ezra 7:27Ps 41:12-13

³³And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:26Prov 17:10Prov 25:12Prov 27:21Prov 28:23Prov 9:9Ps 141:51 Sam 24:191 Sam 25:311 Sam 26:9-10

³⁴For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 11:111 Sam 25:181 Sam 25:26Josh 10:6Josh 10:9

³⁵So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 20:422 Kgs 5:19Gen 19:212 Sam 15:9Job 34:19Luke 7:50Luke 8:48

³⁶And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:191 Thess 5:7-82 Sam 13:232 Sam 13:28Prov 20:1Matt 10:16Rom 13:131 Kgs 20:16Dan 5:1-5Eccl 10:19

³⁷But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:221 Sam 25:34Deut 28:28Job 15:21-22Prov 23:29-35

³⁸And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:331 Sam 26:101 Sam 6:92 Chr 10:152 Kgs 15:52 Kgs 19:352 Sam 6:7Acts 12:23Exod 12:29

³⁹And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:261 Sam 25:34Prov 22:231 Kgs 2:441 Sam 24:151 Sam 25:32Ps 7:161 Thess 5:232 Sam 22:47-492 Sam 3:28-29

⁴⁰And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 24:51Gen 24:37-38

⁴¹And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Tim 5:10John 13:3-5Ruth 2:10Gen 18:4Prov 15:33Prov 18:12Ruth 2:13

⁴²And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 24:61-67Ps 45:10-11

⁴³David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 27:31 Sam 30:5Josh 15:562 Sam 3:22 Sam 5:13-16Gen 2:24Matt 19:5Matt 19:8

⁴⁴But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:272 Sam 3:141 Sam 18:20Isa 10:30