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The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail: and she was a woman of good wisdom and beautiful. But the man was churlish and of shrewd conditions and was a Calebite.

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

And when David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal shore his sheep,

Verse ConceptsSheep Shearing

he sent out ten of his young men, and said unto them, "Get you up to Carmel and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleSpoken Greetings

And David's young men came and told Nabal all those words in the name of David and then stopped.

Verse ConceptsPeople Waiting

And Nabal answered David's servants and said, "What is David? And what is the son of Jesse? There is plenty of servants nowadays, that break away every man from his master.

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

But one of the lads told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "See, David sent messengers unto our master out of the wilderness to salute him, and he railed on them.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsInsulting Other PeopleTelling Of Happenings

and said unto her young men, "Go before me, and see I come after you," and told her husband Nabal nothing thereof.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Did Not Tell

Let not my lord regard this unthrifty man Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and folly is with him. But I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord which thou sendest.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfFoolish PeoplePeople With Apt Names

And now my lord as sure as the LORD liveth and as thy soul liveth, the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood and from avenging thyself with thine own hand. Furthermore, I pray God that thine enemies and they that intend to do my lord evil, may be as Nabal.

Verse ConceptsSheddingRestraints From KillingNot Avenging

For in very deed - as sure as the LORD God of Israel liveth which hath kept me back from hurting thee - except thou hadst hasted and met me, there had not been left Nabal, by the dawning of the day, a pisser against the wall."

Verse ConceptsUrinatingDeath Of All Males

And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.

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

But in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these words, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone,

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionSick Individuals

And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD that hath judged the cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil, and hath turned the wickedness of Nabal again upon his own head." And David sent to commune with Abigail, to the intent to take her to his wife.

Verse ConceptsDivine RestraintsHeadsRestraintGod Makes Evil ReboundGod VindicatesBless The Lord!

And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, both he and his men, every man with his household; and David with his two wives: Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail, Nabal's wife of Carmel.

Verse ConceptsActual WidowsDavid's Wives

And David's two wives were taken prisoners also: Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

Verse ConceptsTwo WomenActual WidowsDavid's Wives

And so David went thither with his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail, Nabal's wife, the Carmelite.

Verse ConceptsActual WidowsDavid's Wives

the second, Chileab of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai the king of Geshur;

Verse ConceptsActual WidowsDavid's Wives