Most Popular Bible Verses in 1 Samuel 25
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Now my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, it is the Lord who kept you from participating in bloodshed and avenging yourself
In the morning when Nabal sobered up,
Accept this gift
Please forgive your servant’s offense,
Samuel died,
A man in Maon
When the Lord does for my lord all the good He promised and appoints you ruler over Israel,
there will not be remorse or a troubled conscience for my lord because of needless bloodshed or my lord’s revenge. And when the Lord does good things for my lord, may you remember me your servant.”
Otherwise, as surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any men
Then David said to Abigail, “Praise to the Lord God of Israel,
Your discernment is blessed, and you are blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.
Abigail hurried, taking 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel
When David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David sent us to bring you to him as a wife.”
Then David accepted what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace.
“When someone pursues you and attempts to take your life, my lord’s life will be tucked safely in the place
Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king.
The man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name, Abigail. The woman was intelligent and beautiful, but the man, a Calebite,
Then Abigail got up quickly, and with her five female servants accompanying her, rode on the donkey following David’s messengers.
When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise the Lord who championed my cause against Nabal’s insults
Then David sent messengers to speak to Abigail about marrying him.
Nabal asked them, “Who is David?
May God punish me
But Saul gave his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti
One of Nabal’s young men informed Abigail, Nabal’s wife: “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master,
My lord should pay no attention to this worthless man Nabal, for he lives up to his name:
When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey and fell with her face to the ground in front of David.
About 10 days later, the Lord struck Nabal dead.
He said to his men, “All of you, put on your swords!” So David and all his men put on their swords. About 400 men followed David while 200 stayed with the supplies.
Now consider carefully what you must do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him!”
She stood up, then bowed her face to the ground
She fell at his feet and said, “The guilt is mine, my lord, but please let your servant speak to you directly. Listen to the words of your servant.
They were a wall around us, both day and night,
The men treated us well. When we were in the field, we weren’t harassed
Am I supposed to take my bread, my water, and my meat that I butchered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t know where they are from.”
so David sent 10 young men instructing them, “Go up to Carmel, and when you come to Nabal, greet him in my name.
Then say this: ‘Long life to you,
Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on a feast
David’s young men went and said all these things to Nabal on David’s behalf,
David’s men retraced their steps. When they returned to him, they reported all these words.
As she rode the donkey down a mountain pass hidden from view, she saw David and his men coming toward her and met them.
David had just said, “I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness for nothing. He was not missing anything, yet he paid me back evil for good.
I hear that you are shearing.