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1 Samuel

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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. 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 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. 4 And David heard in the wilder­ness that Na­bal did shear his sheep. 5 And 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: 6 And 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. 7 And 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. 8 Ask 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. 9 And when David's young men came, they spake to Na­bal ac­cord­ing to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. 10 And 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. 11 Shall 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? 12 So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those say­ings. 13 And 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. 14 But 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. 15 But 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: 16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keep­ing the sheep. 17 Now 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. 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 an hun­dred clus­ters of raisins, and two hun­dred cakes of figs, and laid them on ass­es. 19 And she said unto her ser­vants, Go on be­fore me; be­hold, I come af­ter you. But she told not her hus­band Na­bal. 20 And 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. 21 Now 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. 22 So 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. 23 And when Abi­gail saw David, she hast­ed, and light­ed off the ass, and fell be­fore David on her face, and bowed her­self to the ground, 24 And 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. 25 Let 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. 26 Now 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. 27 And now this bless­ing which thine hand­maid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be giv­en unto the young men that fol­low my lord. 28 I 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. 29 Yet 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. 30 And 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; 31 That 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. 32 And David said to Abi­gail, Blessed be the LORD God of Is­rael, which sent thee this day to meet me: 33 And 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. 34 For 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. 35 So 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. 36 And 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. 37 But 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. 38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Na­bal, that he died. 39 And 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. 40 And 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. 41 And 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. 42 And 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. 43 David also took Ahi­noam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. 44 But Saul had giv­en Michal his daugh­ter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gal­lim.