1 Samuel 25:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Gen 38:13 : 13 Tamar was told, Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
  • 2 Sam 13:23 : 23 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal Hazor, near Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

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

    5And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name;

    6And thus shall you say to him who lives in prosperity, Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace to all that you have.

    7And now I have heard that you have shearers; now your shepherds that were with us, we did not harm them, nor was there anything missing from them, all the while they were in Carmel.

    8Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, let the young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a good day. Please give whatever you can to your servants and to your son David.

    9And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and then they stopped.

    10And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who break away from their masters.

    11Shall I take my bread, my water, and the meat I have prepared for my shearers, and give it to men whom I do not know from where they are?

    12So David's young men turned away, and went back, and came and told him all these words.

    13And David said to his men, Each of you gird on his sword. And each one girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

    14But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed on them.

    15But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, nor did we miss anything, as long as we were associating with them, when we were in the fields.

  • 1 Sam 25:2-3
    2 verses
    83%

    2And there was a man in Maon whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very wealthy, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

    3Now the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail; and she was a woman of good understanding and beautiful appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his deeds; he was from the house of Caleb.

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

    18Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep already prepared, five measures of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

    19And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

    20And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the hill, behold, David and his men were coming down toward her, and she met them.

    21Now David had said, Surely in vain have I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missing of all that belonged to him, and he has repaid me evil for good.

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

    23When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off the donkey and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

    24And she fell at his feet and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be; and let your maidservant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant.

    25Please do not let my lord regard this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

    26Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, since the LORD has restrained you from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal.

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

    31that this will be no grief to you, nor a cause of remorse of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your maidservant.

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

    33And blessed is your advice, and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

    34For indeed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely by morning light no males would have been left to Nabal.

    35So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to your house; see, I have listened to your voice and respected your person.

    36And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light.

    37But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became like a stone.

    38And it came about ten days later that the LORD struck Nabal, and he died.

    39And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil; for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her to him as a wife.

    40And when the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David sent us to you, to take you to him as a wife.

    41And she arose and bowed herself with her face to the ground, and said, Behold, let your maidservant be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

    42And Abigail hurried and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five maids accompanying her; so she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.

  • 1 Sam 30:5
    72%

    5And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    71%

    9And David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothes, and returned and came to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 17:15
    71%

    15But David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 17:34
    71%

    34David said to Saul, Your servant kept his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

  • 1 Sam 23:10
    70%

    10Then David said, O LORD God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 1 Sam 17:28
    70%

    28Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men and Eliab's anger burned against David. He said, Why have you come down here? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the wickedness of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.

  • 1 Sam 23:1
    70%

    1Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they are robbing the threshing floors.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
    70%

    24And the servants of Saul told him, saying, This is what David spoke.

  • 1 Sam 24:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. And David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

    4And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which the LORD said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you. Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly.

  • 1 Sam 23:15
    70%

    15And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a forest.

  • 1 Sam 16:19
    70%

    19Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    70%

    9And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your harm?

  • 2 Sam 2:2
    70%

    2So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

  • 1 Sam 15:14
    70%

    14And Samuel said, What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    70%

    5So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and struck them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

  • 1 Sam 27:3
    69%

    3And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal's wife.