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1 Samuel 25:1 (GW)
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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.

1 Samuel 25:2 (GW)
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Now, there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very rich man. He had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:3 (GW)
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This man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was sensible and beautiful, but he was harsh and mean. He was a descendant of Caleb.

1 Samuel 25:4 (GW)
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While David was in the desert, he heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

1 Samuel 25:5 (GW)
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So David sent ten young men and told them, “Go to Carmel, visit Nabal, and greet him for me.

1 Samuel 25:6 (GW)
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Say to him, ‘May you live long! May you, your home, and all you have prosper!

1 Samuel 25:7 (GW)
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I hear that your sheepshearers are with you. Your shepherds have been with us, and we have not mistreated them. Nothing of theirs has been missing as long as they’ve been in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:8 (GW)
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Ask your young men, and let them tell you. Be kind to my young men, since we have come on a special occasion. Please give us and your son David anything you can spare.’”

1 Samuel 25:9 (GW)
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When David’s young men came to Nabal, they repeated all of this to him for David, and then they waited.

1 Samuel 25:10 (GW)
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“Who is David?” Nabal answered David’s servants. “Who is Jesse’s son? So many servants nowadays are leaving their masters.

1 Samuel 25:11 (GW)
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Should I take my bread, my water, and my meat that I butchered for my shearers and give them to men coming from who knows where?”

1 Samuel 25:12 (GW)
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David’s young men returned and told him all this.

1 Samuel 25:13 (GW)
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“Each of you put on your swords!” David told his men. And everyone, including David, put on his sword. About four hundred men went with David, while two hundred men stayed with the supplies.

1 Samuel 25:14 (GW)
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One of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the desert to greet our master, who yelled at them.

1 Samuel 25:15 (GW)
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Those men were very good to us. They didn’t mistreat us, and we found that nothing was missing wherever we went with them when we were in the fields.

1 Samuel 25:16 (GW)
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They were a wall protecting us day and night as long as we were watching the sheep near them.

1 Samuel 25:17 (GW)
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Now, consider what you should do because our master and his whole household are doomed. And he’s such a worthless man that it’s useless to talk to him.”

1 Samuel 25:18 (GW)
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So Abigail quickly took 200 loaves of bread, 2 full wineskins, 5 butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, 100 bunches of raisins, and 200 fig cakes and loaded them on donkeys.

1 Samuel 25:19 (GW)
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“Go on ahead,” she told her young men, “and I’ll follow you.” But she didn’t tell her husband Nabal about it.

1 Samuel 25:20 (GW)
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She was riding on her donkey down a hidden mountain path when she met David and his men coming toward her.

1 Samuel 25:21 (GW)
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David had thought, “I guarded this man’s stuff in the desert for nothing! Not one of his possessions was missing. Yet, he has paid me back with evil when I was good to him.

1 Samuel 25:22 (GW)
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May God punish me if I leave even one of his men alive in the morning.”

1 Samuel 25:23 (GW)
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When Abigail saw David, she quickly got down from her donkey. She immediately bowed down in front of David with her face touching the ground.

1 Samuel 25:24 (GW)
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After she bowed at his feet, she said, “Sir, let me be held responsible for this wrong. Please let me speak with you. Please listen to my words.

1 Samuel 25:25 (GW)
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You shouldn’t take this worthless person Nabal seriously. He is like his name. His name is Nabal Godless Fool, and he’s foolish. But I didn’t see the young men you sent.

1 Samuel 25:26 (GW)
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“The Lord has kept you from spilling innocent blood and from getting a victory by your own efforts. Now, sir, I solemnly swear, as the Lord and you live, may your enemies and those who are trying to harm you end up like Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:27 (GW)
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Here is a gift I am bringing to you. May it be given to the young men who are in your service.

1 Samuel 25:28 (GW)
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Please forgive my offense. The Lord will certainly give you, sir, a lasting dynasty, because you are fighting the Lord’s battles. May evil never be found in you as long as you live.

1 Samuel 25:29 (GW)
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Even though someone pursued you and sought your life, your life is wrapped in the bundle of life which comes from the Lord your God. But he will dispose of the lives of your enemies like stones thrown from a sling.

1 Samuel 25:30 (GW)
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When the Lord does all the good he promised and makes you ruler of Israel,

1 Samuel 25:31 (GW)
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you shouldn’t have a troubled conscience because you spilled blood for no good reason and claimed your own victory. When the Lord has given you success, remember me.”

1 Samuel 25:32 (GW)
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David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me.

1 Samuel 25:33 (GW)
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May your good judgment be blessed. Also, may you be blessed for keeping me from slaughtering people today and from getting a victory by my own efforts.

1 Samuel 25:34 (GW)
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But I solemnly swear—as the Lord God of Israel, who has kept me from harming you, lives—if you hadn’t come to meet me quickly, Nabal certainly wouldn’t have had one of his men left at dawn.”

1 Samuel 25:35 (GW)
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Then David accepted what she brought him and told her, “Go home in peace. I’ve listened to what you’ve said and granted your request.”

1 Samuel 25:36 (GW)
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When Abigail came to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his home. It was like a king’s banquet. He was in a good mood and very drunk, so she didn’t tell him anything until dawn.

1 Samuel 25:37 (GW)
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But in the morning, when the effects of the wine had worn off, his wife told him what had happened. Nabal’s heart failed, and he could not move.

1 Samuel 25:38 (GW)
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About ten days later the Lord made him even more sick, and Nabal died.

1 Samuel 25:39 (GW)
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When David heard Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord, who defended me against the insults of Nabal and kept me from doing wrong. The Lord has turned Nabal’s own wickedness back on him.” Then David sent men on his behalf to propose marriage to Abigail.

1 Samuel 25:40 (GW)
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When David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they told her, “David has sent us to you so that we can take you to him to be his wife.”

1 Samuel 25:41 (GW)
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She bowed down with her face touching the ground. “I am ready to serve,” she said. “I am ready to wash the feet of my master’s servants.”

1 Samuel 25:42 (GW)
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Then Abigail quickly got up and rode on a donkey with five of her female servants following her. So she went with David’s messengers and became his wife.

1 Samuel 25:43 (GW)
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David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. Both she and Abigail were his wives.

1 Samuel 25:44 (GW)
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Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti, Laish’s son, who was from Gallim.

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