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Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. And the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance, but the man was churlish and evil in his doings, and he was of the house of Caleb.

Verse ConceptsBehaviourIntelligenceOutward AppearanceSelfishness, Examples OfGood Wives ExamplesBeauty, In WomenDiscourtesyWomen's BeautyBeauty Of NatureA Good WomanInner BeautyBeauty And Self WorthA Good HusbandBeautiful Women

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

Verse ConceptsSheep Shearing

And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleSpoken Greetings

And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

Verse ConceptsPeople Waiting

And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master.

Verse ConceptsContempt, Examples OfInhospitalityDisloyaltyEscaping From PeopleWho Is This?Other Unimportant PeopleI Am Unimportant

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master, and he railed at them.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsInsulting Other PeopleTelling Of Happenings

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

Verse ConceptsThose Who Did Not Tell

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord whom thou sent.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfFoolish PeoplePeople With Apt Names

For in very deed, as LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting thee, unless thou had hastened and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one man-child.

Verse ConceptsUrinatingDeath Of All Males

And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held 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, less or more, until the morning light.

Verse ConceptsDawnGluttonyFeastingExcessdrinking, abstention fromBanquets, ActivitiesDrunkenness, Examples OfMerrinessRevelryDrunk IndividualsThose Who Did Not Tell

And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionSick Individuals

And it came to pass about ten days after, that LORD smote Nabal, so that he died.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyTen Or More DaysGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil, and the evil-doing of Nabal LORD has returned upon his ow

Verse ConceptsDivine RestraintsHeadsRestraintGod Makes Evil ReboundGod VindicatesBless The Lord!

And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

Verse ConceptsActual WidowsDavid's Wives

And David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

Verse ConceptsTwo WomenActual WidowsDavid's Wives