1 Samuel 25 (NET)

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1 Samuel 25:1¹Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David left and went down to the wilderness of Paran.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 28:3 Deut 34:8 Num 20:29 2 Chr 33:20 Acts 8:2 Gen 21:21 Num 10:12 1 Kgs 2:34 Num 13:3 1 Sam 7:17

1 Samuel 25:2²There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; he owned 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 23:24 Gen 38:13 Josh 15:55 Luke 16:19-25 1 Sam 30:5 2 Sam 13:23-24 2 Sam 19:32 Gen 13:2 Gen 26:13 Job 1:3

1 Samuel 25:3³The man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was both wise and beautiful, but the man was harsh and his deeds were evil. He was a Calebite.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 14:1 Isa 32:5-7 Prov 31:10 Prov 31:30-31 Ps 10:3 1 Sam 25:17 Prov 31:26 1 Sam 25:10-11 1 Sam 30:14

1 Samuel 25:4⁴When David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 13:23 Gen 38:13

1 Samuel 25:5⁵he sent ten servants, saying to them, “Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 17:22 Gen 43:23

1 Samuel 25:6⁶Then you will say to my brother, ‘Peace to you and your house! Peace to all that is yours!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 12:18 Ps 122:7 1 Tim 5:6 Luke 10:5 2 Thess 3:16 John 14:27 Matt 10:12-13 1 Thess 3:8 2 Sam 18:28

1 Samuel 25:7⁷Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:21 1 Sam 25:15-16 1 Sam 22:2 Isa 11:6-9 Luke 3:14 Phil 2:15 Phil 4:8

1 Samuel 25:8⁸Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come at the time of a holiday. Please provide us—your servants and your son David—with whatever you can spare.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Esth 9:19 Neh 8:10-12 1 Sam 24:11 1 Sam 3:6 Eccl 11:2 Esth 9:22 Luke 11:41 Luke 14:12-14

1 Samuel 25:9⁹So David’s servants went and spoke all these words to Nabal in David’s name. Then they paused.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 14:7 2 Kgs 2:15 Gen 8:4

1 Samuel 25:10¹⁰But Nabal responded to David’s servants, “Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 9:28 1 Kgs 12:16 1 Sam 20:30 1 Sam 22:2 1 Sam 22:7-8 2 Sam 20:1 Eccl 7:10 Exod 5:2 Isa 32:5 Isa 32:7

1 Samuel 25:11¹¹Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 8:6 Gal 6:10 1 Pet 4:9 1 Sam 24:13 1 Sam 25:14-15 1 Sam 25:3 2 Cor 6:9 Deut 8:17 Eccl 11:1-2 Job 31:17

1 Samuel 25:12¹²So David’s servants went on their way. When they had returned, they came and told David all these things.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 24:13 Heb 13:17 Isa 36:21-22

1 Samuel 25:13¹³Then David instructed his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About 400 men followed David, while 200 stayed behind with the equipment.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 23:13 1 Sam 24:5-6 1 Sam 30:21-24 1 Sam 30:9-10 Jas 1:19-20 Josh 9:14 Prov 14:29 Prov 19:11 Prov 19:2 Prov 25:8

1 Samuel 25:14¹⁴But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our lord, but he screamed at them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 13:10 Mark 15:29

1 Samuel 25:15¹⁵These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together in the field.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:21 1 Sam 25:7 Phil 2:15

1 Samuel 25:16¹⁶Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 1:10 Exod 14:22 Zech 2:5 Jer 15:20

1 Samuel 25:17¹⁷Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. He is such a wicked person that no one tells him anything!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 20:7 Deut 13:13 1 Kgs 21:10 1 Kgs 21:13 1 Sam 2:12 1 Sam 20:32-33 1 Sam 20:9 1 Sam 25:25 2 Chr 13:7 2 Chr 25:16

1 Samuel 25:18¹⁸So Abigail quickly took 200 loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, 100 bunches of raisins, and 200 lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeysCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 16:1 Matt 5:25 Prov 18:16 Prov 6:4-5 1 Chr 12:40 1 Sam 25:34 2 Sam 17:28-29 Gen 32:13-20 Gen 43:11-14 Num 16:46-48

1 Samuel 25:19¹⁹and said to her servants, “Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 32:20 Gen 32:16 Prov 31:11-12 Prov 31:27

1 Samuel 25:20²⁰Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:24

1 Samuel 25:21²¹Now David had been thinking, “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 17:13 Eph 4:26 Eph 4:31 Rom 12:21 1 Pet 2:20-23 1 Pet 3:17 1 Thess 5:15 1 Pet 3:9 1 Sam 25:13 Gen 44:4

1 Samuel 25:22²²God will severely punish David, if I leave alive until morning even one male from all those who belong to him!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 14:10 1 Sam 20:13 1 Sam 3:17 1 Kgs 21:21 1 Kgs 16:11 1 Sam 14:44 1 Sam 20:16 2 Kgs 9:8 Ruth 1:17

1 Samuel 25:23²³When Abigail saw David, she got down quickly from the donkey, threw herself facedown before David, and bowed to the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 20:41 Josh 15:18 Judg 1:14 1 Sam 24:8

1 Samuel 25:24²⁴Falling at his feet, she said, “My lord, I accept all the guilt! But please let your female servant speak to you! Please listen to the words of your servant!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:28 2 Sam 14:9 Esth 8:3 2 Kgs 4:37 Phlm 1:18-19 2 Sam 14:12 Gen 44:18 Gen 44:33-34 Matt 18:29

1 Samuel 25:25²⁵My lord should not pay attention to this wicked man Nabal. He simply lives up to his name! His name means ‘fool,’ and he is indeed foolish! But I, your servant, did not see the servants my lord sent.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:17 Mal 2:2 2 Sam 13:33 1 Sam 25:26 Isa 42:25

1 Samuel 25:26²⁶“Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as surely as you live, it is the Lord who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 18:32 Rom 12:19-20 Gen 20:6 1 Sam 25:33-34 Dan 4:19 Heb 10:30 Ps 18:47-48 Ps 44:3 1 Sam 1:26 1 Sam 22:3

1 Samuel 25:27²⁷Now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow my lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 30:26 Gen 33:11 2 Kgs 5:15 1 Sam 25:42 2 Cor 9:5 2 Sam 16:2 Judg 4:10

1 Samuel 25:28²⁸Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the Lord will certainly establish a lasting dynasty for my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. May no evil be found in you all your days!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 18:17 2 Sam 7:11 1 Chr 17:25 1 Sam 24:11 1 Chr 17:10 1 Kgs 9:5 2 Sam 7:16 1 Kgs 15:5 1 Sam 15:28 1 Sam 17:47

1 Samuel 25:29²⁹When someone sets out to chase you and to take your life, the life of my lord will be wrapped securely in the bag of the living by the Lord your God. But he will sling away the lives of your enemies from the sling’s pocket!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 17:21 Mal 3:17 Matt 10:29-30 Ps 116:15 1 Pet 1:5 1 Sam 2:9 Jer 10:18 John 17:23 Ps 66:9 Col 3:3-4

1 Samuel 25:30³⁰The Lord will do for my lord everything that he promised you, and he will make you a leader over Israel.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 13:14 1 Sam 15:28 1 Sam 23:17 Ps 89:20

1 Samuel 25:31³¹Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the Lord has granted my lord success, please remember your servant.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 40:14 1 Sam 25:33 Rom 12:19 1 Sam 24:15 1 Sam 25:40 1 Sam 26:23 2 Sam 22:48 Luke 23:42 Prov 5:12-13 Ps 94:1

1 Samuel 25:32³²Then David said to Abigail, “Praised be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 1:68 Exod 18:10 Gen 24:27 Ps 72:18 2 Cor 8:16 Ezra 7:27 Ps 41:12-13

1 Samuel 25:33³³Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:26 Prov 17:10 Prov 25:12 Prov 27:21 Prov 28:23 Prov 9:9 Ps 141:5 1 Sam 24:19 1 Sam 25:31 1 Sam 26:9-10

1 Samuel 25:34³⁴Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives—he who has prevented me from harming you—if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 11:11 1 Sam 25:18 1 Sam 25:26 Josh 10:6 Josh 10:9

1 Samuel 25:35³⁵Then David took from her hand what she had brought to him. He said to her, “Go back to your home in peace. Be assured that I have listened to you and responded favorably.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 20:42 2 Kgs 5:19 Gen 19:21 2 Sam 15:9 Job 34:19 Luke 7:50 Luke 8:48

1 Samuel 25:36³⁶When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing until morning’s light.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:19 1 Thess 5:7-8 2 Sam 13:23 2 Sam 13:28 Prov 20:1 Matt 10:16 Rom 13:13 1 Kgs 20:16 Dan 5:1-5 Eccl 10:19

1 Samuel 25:37³⁷In the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:22 1 Sam 25:34 Deut 28:28 Job 15:21-22 Prov 23:29-35

1 Samuel 25:38³⁸After about ten days the Lord struck Nabal down and he died.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:33 1 Sam 26:10 1 Sam 6:9 2 Chr 10:15 2 Kgs 15:5 2 Kgs 19:35 2 Sam 6:7 Acts 12:23 Exod 12:29

1 Samuel 25:39³⁹When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praised be the Lord who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 25:26 1 Sam 25:34 Prov 22:23 1 Kgs 2:44 1 Sam 24:15 1 Sam 25:32 Ps 7:16 1 Thess 5:23 2 Sam 22:47-49 2 Sam 3:28-29

1 Samuel 25:40⁴⁰So the servants of David went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, “David has sent us to you to bring you back to be his wife.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:51 Gen 24:37-38

1 Samuel 25:41⁴¹She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said, “Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Tim 5:10 John 13:3-5 Ruth 2:10 Gen 18:4 Prov 15:33 Prov 18:12 Ruth 2:13

1 Samuel 25:42⁴²Then Abigail quickly went and mounted her donkey, with five of her female servants accompanying her. She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:61-67 Ps 45:10-11

1 Samuel 25:43⁴³David had also married Ahinoam from Jezreel; the two of them became his wives.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 27:3 1 Sam 30:5 Josh 15:56 2 Sam 3:2 2 Sam 5:13-16 Gen 2:24 Matt 19:5 Matt 19:8

1 Samuel 25:44⁴⁴(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 18:27 2 Sam 3:14 1 Sam 18:20 Isa 10:30