ULT 1SA Chapter 25

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25 And Samuel died, and all of Israel gathered and mourned for him, and they buried him at his house in Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. 2 Now a man was in Maon, and his work was in Carmel. And the man was very great. For to him were 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. 3 And the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail. Now the woman was good of insight and beautiful of appearance. But the man was harsh and evil of deeds, and he was a Calebite. 4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. 5 And David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and you shall go to Nabal, and you shall ask him in my name regarding peace. 6 And you shall say thus, ‘To life! And peace to you and peace to your house and peace to all that is to you. 7 And now, I have heard that shearers are to you. Now the shepherds who are to you have been with us. We have not hurt them, and anything to them has not been missing all of the days of their being in Carmel. 8 Ask your young men, and they will declare to you. So let the young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a good day. Please give whatever your hand finds to your servants and to your son, to David.’ ” 9 So the young men of David came, and they spoke to Nabal according to all of these words in the name of David. Then they ceased. 10 And Nabal answered the servants of David and said, “Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today servants are many who are breaking themselves away, a man from the face of his master. 11 So shall I take my bread and my water and my slaughter that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give to men whom I do not know where from this they are?” 12 And the young men of David turned to their way, and they returned and came and declared to him according to all of these words. 13 And David said to his men, “Strap on, a man his sword.” And they strapped on, a man his sword. And David also strapped on his sword. And about 400 men went up behind David, and 200 stayed with the equipment. 14 But one young man from the young men declared to Abigail, the wife of Nabal, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to bless our master, but he screamed at them. 15 But the men were very good to us. And we were not hurt, and we did not miss anything all of the days when we went about with them in our being in the field. 16 They were a wall for us both night and day, all of the days of our being with them, tending the sheep. 17 And now, know and see what you shall do, for harm has completed against our master and against all of his house. And he is a son of wickedness from speaking to him.” 18 And Abigail hurried and took 200 loaves of bread and two skins of wine and five prepared sheep and five seahs of roasted grain and 100 bunches of raisins and 200 cakes of figs. And she put them on donkeys. 19 And she said to her young men, “Pass over to my face. Behold me, I will come after you.” But to her husband Nabal she did not declare. 20 And she was riding on the donkey and going down in the cover of the mountain, and behold, David and his men were coming down to meet her. And she encountered them. 21 Now David had said, “Surely for a lie I kept all that was to this one in the wilderness, and not anything was missed from all that was to him. For he has returned evil to me for good. 22 Thus may God do to the enemies of David, and thus may he add, if I let remain until the morning any pissing against the wall who are to him!” 23 And Abigail saw David, and she hurried and got down from upon the donkey. And she fell to the face of David on her face and prostrated herself on the ground. 24 And she fell at his feet and said, “On me myself, my master, be the iniquity. Now please let your maidservant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant. 25 May my master please not set his heart to this man of wickedness, upon Nabal, for as is his name, so [is he. Nabal is his name, and foolishness is with him. But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my master, whom you sent. 26 And now, my master, the life of Yahweh, and the life of your soul, it is Yahweh who has restrained you from entering into bloodshed and your hand saving for yourself. And now, may your enemies and the ones seeking harm against my master be like Nabal. 27 And now, may this blessing that your maidservant has caused to come to my master be given to the young men going about at the feet of my master. 28 Please lift off the transgression of your maidservant. For making, Yahweh will make for my master an established house, because my master is fighting the battles of Yahweh. And evil will not be found in you from your days. 29 If a man arises to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my master will be bound in the bundle of the living by Yahweh your God. But the life of your enemies, he will sling it away in the midst of the pocket of a sling. 30 And it will happen, when Yahweh has done for my master according to all of the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you for a ruler over Israel, 31 then this will not be an obstacle for you or a stumbling block of heart for my master, or for the pouring out of blood without cause, or for my master saving himself. And Yahweh will do good for my master, and you will remember your maidservant.” 32 And David said to Abigail, “May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be blessed, who sent you this day to meet me. 33 And blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you who have kept me this day from entering into bloodshed and my hand saving for myself! 34 For indeed, the life of Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has retrained me from harming you, that lest you had hurried and come to meet me, that if one pissing against the wall had been left to Nabal until the light of the morning!” 35 And David took from her hand what she had brought to him. And he said to her, “Go up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to your voice, and I have lifted up your face.” 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, a feast was to him in his house like the feast of a king. And the heart of Nabal was good within him, and he was drunk to abundance. So she did not declare to him a thing small or great until the light of the morning. 37 And it happened in the morning, when the wine had gone out from Nabal, that his wife declared to him these things. And his heart died in the midst of him, and he became a stone. 38 And it was about ten days, and Yahweh struck Nabal and he died. 39 And David heard that Nabal had died, and he said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has conducted the case of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has withheld his servant from evil. And Yahweh has returned the evil of Nabal on his head.” And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her for himself for a wife. 40 And the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, and they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you to him for a wife.” 41 And she arose and bowed down, nostrils to the ground, and she said, “Behold your maidservant, for a slave woman for washing the feet of the servants of my master.” 42 And Abigail hurried and arose and rode on a donkey, and her five young women were going at her feet. And she went after the messengers of David, and she became to him a wife. 43 And David took Ahinoam from Jezreel, and the two of them also became wives for him. 44 But Saul had given his daughter Michal, the wife of David, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

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