1Sa 25:1
25:1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered
     together, and lamented him, and buried him in his {a} house
     at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness
     of Paran.

     (a) That is, among his own kindred.

1Sa 25:2
25:2 And [there was] a man in {b} Maon, whose possessions [were]
     in Carmel; and the man [was] very great, and he had three
     thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing
     his sheep in Carmel.

     (b) Maon and Carmel were cities in the tribe of Judah.
         Carmel the mountain was in Galilee.

1Sa 25:6
25:6 And thus shall ye say {c} to him that liveth [in
     prosperity], Peace [be] both to thee, and peace [be] to
     thine house, and peace [be] unto all that thou hast.

     (c) Or, for salvation.

1Sa 25:8
25:8 Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let
     the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a
     good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever {d} cometh to thine
     hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

     (d) Whatever you have ready for us.

1Sa 25:10
25:10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who [is]
      David?  and who [is] the {e} son of Jesse? there be many
      servants now a days that break away every man from his
      master.

      (e) Thus the covetous wretches instead of relieving the
          needs of God's children, reviled their persons and
          condemned their cause.

1Sa 25:15
25:15 But the men [were] very good {f} unto us, and we were not
      hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were
      conversant with them, when we were in the fields:

      (f) When we kept our sheep in the wilderness of Paran.

1Sa 25:19
25:19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I
      come after you. But she told not her {g} husband Nabal.

      (g) Because she knew his crooked nature, that he would
          rather die than agree to her enterprise.

1Sa 25:22
25:22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I
      leave of all that [pertain] to him by the morning light
      any that {h} pisseth against the wall.

      (h) Meaning by this proverb that he would destroy both
          small and great.

1Sa 25:26
25:26 Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy
      soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from
      coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging thyself with
      thine own {i} hand, now let thine enemies, and they that
      seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

      (i) That is, that you should not be revenged by your
          enemy.

1Sa 25:28
25:28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for
      the LORD will certainly make my lord a {k} sure house;
      because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil
      hath not been found in thee [all] thy days.

      (k) Confirm his kingdom to his posterity.

1Sa 25:29
25:29 Yet {l} a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy
      soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the {m}
      bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of
      thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out] of the
      middle of a sling.

      (l) That is, Saul.
      (m) God will preserve you long in his service, and destroy
          your enemies.

1Sa 25:31
25:31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of
      heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood
      causeless, or that my lord hath {n} avenged himself: but
      when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then
      remember thine handmaid.

      (n) That he did not avenge himself, which would have
          tormented his conscience.

1Sa 25:33
25:33 And blessed [be] thy advice, and blessed [be] thou, which
      hast kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood, {o} and
      from avenging myself with mine own hand.

      (o) Read @1Sa 25:31.

1Sa 25:34
25:34 For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth, {p}
      which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou
      hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not
      been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth
      against the wall.

      (p) He attributes it to the Lord's mercy, and not to
          himself that he was stayed.

1Sa 25:36
25:36 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 drunken:
      wherefore she told him {q} nothing, less or more, until
      the morning light.

      (q) For he had no reason either to consider, or to give
          thanks for this great benefit of deliverance.

1Sa 25:37
25:37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone
      out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that
      his heart died within him, and he became [as] {r} a stone.

      (r) For fear of the great danger.

1Sa 25:39
25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed
      [be] the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach
      from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from
      evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal
      upon his own head. And David sent and communed with
      Abigail, to {s} take her to him to wife.

      (s) For he had experienced her great godliness, wisdom and
          humility.



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