1 Samuel 25:19
and said to her servants,“Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 32:20 : 20 You must also say,‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought,“I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”
- Gen 32:16 : 16 He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants,“Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”
- Prov 31:11-12 : 11 Her husband’s heart has trusted her, and he does not lack the dividends. 12 She has rewarded him with good and not harm all the days of her life.
- Prov 31:27 : 27 Watching over the ways of her household, she would not eat the bread of idleness.
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20Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.
- 1 Sam 25:31-4212 verses80%
31Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the LORD has granted my lord success, please remember your servant.”
32Then David said to Abigail,“Praised be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!
33Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!
34Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives– he who has prevented me from harming you– if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”
35Then David took from her hand what she had brought to him. He said to her,“Go back to your home in peace. Be assured that I have listened to you and responded favorably.”
36When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing until morning’s light.
37In the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed.
38After about ten days the LORD struck Nabal down and he died.
39When David heard that Nabal had died, he said,“Praised be the LORD who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! The LORD has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.
40So the servants of David went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her,“David has sent us to you to bring you back to be his wife.”
41She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said,“Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
42Then Abigail quickly went and mounted her donkey, with five of her female servants accompanying her. She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.
- 1 Sam 25:8-147 verses79%
8Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come at the time of a holiday. Please provide us– your servants and your son David– with whatever you can spare.”
9So David’s servants went and spoke all these words to Nabal in David’s name. Then they paused.
10But Nabal responded to David’s servants,“Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters!
11Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t even know where they came from!”
12So David’s servants went on their way. When they had returned, they came and told David all these things.
13Then David instructed his men,“Each of you strap on your sword!” So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.
14But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail,“David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our lord, but he screamed at them.
- 1 Sam 25:2-65 verses78%
2David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
3The man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was both wise and beautiful, but the man was harsh and his deeds were evil. He was a Calebite.
4When David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep,
5he sent ten servants, saying to them,“Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name.
6Then you will say to my brother,“Peace to you and your house! Peace to all that is yours!
- 1 Sam 25:23-275 verses78%
23When Abigail saw David, she got down quickly from the donkey, threw herself facedown before David, and bowed to the ground.
24Falling at his feet, she said,“My lord, I accept all the guilt! But please let your female servant speak to you! Please listen to the words of your servant!
25My lord should not pay attention to this wicked man Nabal. He simply lives up to his name! His name means‘fool,’ and he is indeed foolish! But I, your servant, did not see the servants my lord sent.
26“Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, it is the LORD who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.
27Now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow my lord.
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18So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys
- 2 Kgs 4:22-254 verses73%
22She called to her husband,“Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return.”
23He said,“Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath.” She said,“Everything’s fine.”
24She saddled the donkey and told her servant,“Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”
25So she went to visit the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi,“Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.
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16Her husband went along behind her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Finally Abner said to him,“Go back!” So he returned home.
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39But I said to my master,‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’
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2So David went up, along with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail, formerly the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
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5David’s two wives had been taken captive– Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.
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3her husband came after her, hoping he could convince her to return. He brought with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father’s house and the girl’s father saw him, he greeted him warmly.
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18When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to dissuade her.
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28He said to her,“Get up, let’s leave!” But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home.
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61Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and left.
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20She quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.
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25She brought it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and left that same night.
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51Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decided.”
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14While you are still there speaking to the king, I will arrive and verify your report.”
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3Go to the king and speak to him in the following fashion.” Then Joab told her what to say.
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3David settled with Achish in Gath, along with his men and their families. David had with him his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.
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22Abner Is Killed Now David’s soldiers and Joab were coming back from a raid, bringing a great deal of plunder with them. Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for David had sent him away and he had left in peace.