1 Samuel 25:4

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While in the wilderness, David heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

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  • Gen 38:13 : 13 When Tamar was told, 'Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,'
  • 2 Sam 13:23 : 23 Two years later, when Absalom's sheep were being sheared at Baal Hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the king’s sons to come.

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  • 1 Sam 25:5-15
    11 verses
    83%

    5 David sent ten young men and instructed them, "Go to Carmel, find Nabal, and greet him on my behalf.

    6 Say this to him: ‘Peace to you! Peace to your household, and peace to all that you have!’

    7 I have heard that you are shearing your sheep. While your shepherds were with us, we did not harm them, nor was anything of theirs missing during their time in Carmel.

    8 Ask your servants, and they will confirm this. Therefore, may my men find favor in your eyes, because we have come on a festive day. Please give whatever you can spare to your servants and to your son, David.’"

    9 When David’s young men arrived, they delivered this message to Nabal in David’s name and waited.

    10 But Nabal answered David’s servants, "Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Nowadays many servants are breaking away from their masters.

    11 Should I take my bread, my water, and the meat I’ve slaughtered for my shearers and give it to men from who knows where?"

    12 David’s men turned and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word.

    13 David said to his men, "Each of you, strap on your sword!" So they did, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men went with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

    14 One of Nabal’s young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, "David sent messengers from the wilderness to bless our master, but he screamed insults at them.

    15 These men were very good to us. They didn’t harm us, nor did we lose anything during all the time we were with them in the fields.

  • 1 Sam 25:2-3
    2 verses
    83%

    2 There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was very wealthy and owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

    3 The man’s name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail. She was intelligent and beautiful, but Nabal, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

  • 1 Sam 25:18-21
    4 verses
    78%

    18 Then Abigail quickly gathered two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred pressed fig cakes, and she loaded them on donkeys.

    19 She said to her servants, "Go ahead of me; I will follow you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

    20 As she was riding her donkey down into a ravine, David and his men were descending toward her, and she met them.

    21 David had just been saying, "It’s been for nothing that I guarded everything belonging to this man in the wilderness. Nothing was missing, yet he has repaid me evil for good.

  • 1 Sam 25:23-26
    4 verses
    78%

    23 When Abigail saw David, she hurriedly dismounted from her donkey, fell facedown at David’s feet, and bowed to the ground with deep respect.

    24 She fell at his feet and said, "My lord, let the blame be on me alone. Please let your servant speak to you, and hear the words of your servant.

    25 Please, my lord, pay no attention to this worthless man Nabal. He is exactly what his name suggests—his name means ‘fool,’ and folly goes with him. But I, your servant, did not see the men my lord sent.

    26 Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, the Lord has kept you from shedding blood and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those intent on harming my lord be as foolish as Nabal.

  • 1 Sam 25:31-42
    12 verses
    78%

    31 my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord has brought my lord success, remember your servant.

    32 David said to Abigail, 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me.

    33 Blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

    34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has prevented me from harming you, if you had not hurried to come to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning.

    35 Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought to him and said, 'Go home in peace. See, I have listened to your words and granted your request.'

    36 When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk, so she told him nothing at all until daybreak.

    37 Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him, and he became like a stone.

    38 About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

    39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, 'Blessed be the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for insulting me, and has kept me, his servant, from wrongdoing. The Lord has brought Nabal’s wickedness upon his own head.' Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.

    40 David’s servants went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, 'David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.'

    41 Abigail got up, bowed with her face to the ground, and said, 'Here is your servant, ready to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.'

    42 Abigail quickly got on a donkey, accompanied by five of her young women as attendants. She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

  • 1 Sam 30:5
    72%

    5 Both of David’s wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    71%

    9 David attacked the land and did not leave alive a man or woman. He took sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing, and then he returned and went to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
    71%

    15 But David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 17:34
    71%

    34 David said to Saul, 'Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep. Whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,'

  • 1 Sam 23:10
    70%

    10 David said, "LORD, God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city because of me.

  • 1 Sam 17:28
    70%

    28 When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking to the men, he became angry with David and said, 'Why have you come down here? And who did you leave those few sheep with in the wilderness? I know your pride and the wickedness of your heart; you came down only to watch the battle.'

  • 1 Sam 23:1
    70%

    1 Then they reported to David, saying, "Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are looting the threshing floors."

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    70%

    24 When Saul’s servants reported back what David had said,

  • 1 Sam 24:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 So Saul chose three thousand elite men from all Israel and went to search for David and his men near the rocks of the wild goats.

    4 He came to the sheepfolds along the way, and there was a cave. Saul went in to relieve himself, while David and his men were sitting in the innermost part of the cave.

  • 1 Sam 23:15
    70%

    15 When David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life, he stayed in the Wilderness of Ziph, in the woods.

  • 1 Sam 16:19
    70%

    19 Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse, saying, "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep."

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    70%

    9 David got up afterward, went out of the cave, and called after Saul, 'My lord the king!' When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down with his face to the ground and paid homage.

  • 2 Sam 2:2
    70%

    2 So David went up there, along with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

  • 1 Sam 15:14
    70%

    14 But Samuel said, 'What is this sound of sheep and cattle that I hear?'

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    70%

    5 David and his men went to Keilah and fought against the Philistines. He drove their livestock away and struck them with a great blow. Thus, David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

  • 1 Sam 27:3
    69%

    3 David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each with their households, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel.