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1 Samuel 25
Reina-Valera 1960
1 Samuel 25
Reina-Valera 1960
David y Abigail
25 Murió Samuel, y se juntó todo Israel, y lo lloraron, y lo sepultaron en su casa en Ramá.
Y se levantó David y se fue al desierto de Parán. 2 Y en Maón había un hombre que tenía su hacienda en Carmel, el cual era muy rico, y tenía tres mil ovejas y mil cabras. Y aconteció que estaba esquilando sus ovejas en Carmel. 3 Y aquel varón se llamaba Nabal, y su mujer, Abigail. Era aquella mujer de buen entendimiento y de hermosa apariencia, pero el hombre era duro y de malas obras; y era del linaje de Caleb. 4 Y oyó David en el desierto que Nabal esquilaba sus ovejas. 5 Entonces envió David diez jóvenes y les dijo: Subid a Carmel e id a Nabal, y saludadle en mi nombre, 6 y decidle así: Sea paz a ti, y paz a tu familia, y paz a todo cuanto tienes. 7 He sabido que tienes esquiladores. Ahora, tus pastores han estado con nosotros; no les tratamos mal, ni les faltó nada en todo el tiempo que han estado en Carmel. 8 Pregunta a tus criados, y ellos te lo dirán. Hallen, por tanto, estos jóvenes gracia en tus ojos, porque hemos venido en buen día; te ruego que des lo que tuvieres a mano a tus siervos, y a tu hijo David.
9 Cuando llegaron los jóvenes enviados por David, dijeron a Nabal todas estas palabras en nombre de David, y callaron. 10 Y Nabal respondió a los jóvenes enviados por David, y dijo: ¿Quién es David, y quién es el hijo de Isaí? Muchos siervos hay hoy que huyen de sus señores. 11 ¿He de tomar yo ahora mi pan, mi agua, y la carne que he preparado para mis esquiladores, y darla a hombres que no sé de dónde son? 12 Y los jóvenes que había enviado David se volvieron por su camino, y vinieron y dijeron a David todas estas palabras. 13 Entonces David dijo a sus hombres: Cíñase cada uno su espada. Y se ciñó cada uno su espada y también David se ciñó su espada; y subieron tras David como cuatrocientos hombres, y dejaron doscientos con el bagaje.
14 Pero uno de los criados dio aviso a Abigail mujer de Nabal, diciendo: He aquí David envió mensajeros del desierto que saludasen a nuestro amo, y él los ha zaherido. 15 Y aquellos hombres han sido muy buenos con nosotros, y nunca nos trataron mal, ni nos faltó nada en todo el tiempo que anduvimos con ellos, cuando estábamos en el campo. 16 Muro fueron para nosotros de día y de noche, todos los días que hemos estado con ellos apacentando las ovejas. 17 Ahora, pues, reflexiona y ve lo que has de hacer, porque el mal está ya resuelto contra nuestro amo y contra toda su casa; pues él es un hombre tan perverso, que no hay quien pueda hablarle.
18 Entonces Abigail tomó luego doscientos panes, dos cueros de vino, cinco ovejas guisadas, cinco medidas de grano tostado, cien racimos de uvas pasas, y doscientos panes de higos secos, y lo cargó todo en asnos. 19 Y dijo a sus criados: Id delante de mí, y yo os seguiré luego; y nada declaró a su marido Nabal. 20 Y montando un asno, descendió por una parte secreta del monte; y he aquí David y sus hombres venían frente a ella, y ella les salió al encuentro. 21 Y David había dicho: Ciertamente en vano he guardado todo lo que este tiene en el desierto, sin que nada le haya faltado de todo cuanto es suyo; y él me ha vuelto mal por bien. 22 Así haga Dios a los enemigos de David y aun les añada, que de aquí a mañana, de todo lo que fuere suyo no he de dejar con vida ni un varón.
23 Y cuando Abigail vio a David, se bajó prontamente del asno, y postrándose sobre su rostro delante de David, se inclinó a tierra; 24 y se echó a sus pies, y dijo: Señor mío, sobre mí sea el pecado; mas te ruego que permitas que tu sierva hable a tus oídos, y escucha las palabras de tu sierva. 25 No haga caso ahora mi señor de ese hombre perverso, de Nabal; porque conforme a su nombre, así es. Él se llama Nabal,[a] y la insensatez está con él; mas yo tu sierva no vi a los jóvenes que tú enviaste. 26 Ahora pues, señor mío, vive Jehová, y vive tu alma, que Jehová te ha impedido el venir a derramar sangre y vengarte por tu propia mano. Sean, pues, como Nabal tus enemigos, y todos los que procuran mal contra mi señor. 27 Y ahora este presente que tu sierva ha traído a mi señor, sea dado a los hombres que siguen a mi señor. 28 Y yo te ruego que perdones a tu sierva esta ofensa; pues Jehová de cierto hará casa estable a mi señor, por cuanto mi señor pelea las batallas de Jehová, y mal no se ha hallado en ti en tus días. 29 Aunque alguien se haya levantado para perseguirte y atentar contra tu vida, con todo, la vida de mi señor será ligada en el haz de los que viven delante de Jehová tu Dios, y él arrojará la vida de tus enemigos como de en medio de la palma de una honda. 30 Y acontecerá que cuando Jehová haga con mi señor conforme a todo el bien que ha hablado de ti, y te establezca por príncipe sobre Israel, 31 entonces, señor mío, no tendrás motivo de pena ni remordimientos por haber derramado sangre sin causa, o por haberte vengado por ti mismo. Guárdese, pues, mi señor, y cuando Jehová haga bien a mi señor, acuérdate de tu sierva.
32 Y dijo David a Abigail: Bendito sea Jehová Dios de Israel, que te envió para que hoy me encontrases. 33 Y bendito sea tu razonamiento, y bendita tú, que me has estorbado hoy de ir a derramar sangre, y a vengarme por mi propia mano. 34 Porque vive Jehová Dios de Israel que me ha defendido de hacerte mal, que si no te hubieras dado prisa en venir a mi encuentro, de aquí a mañana no le hubiera quedado con vida a Nabal ni un varón. 35 Y recibió David de su mano lo que le había traído, y le dijo: Sube en paz a tu casa, y mira que he oído tu voz, y te he tenido respeto.
36 Y Abigail volvió a Nabal, y he aquí que él tenía banquete en su casa como banquete de rey; y el corazón de Nabal estaba alegre, y estaba completamente ebrio, por lo cual ella no le declaró cosa alguna hasta el día siguiente. 37 Pero por la mañana, cuando ya a Nabal se le habían pasado los efectos del vino, le refirió su mujer estas cosas; y desmayó su corazón en él, y se quedó como una piedra. 38 Y diez días después, Jehová hirió a Nabal, y murió.
39 Luego que David oyó que Nabal había muerto, dijo: Bendito sea Jehová, que juzgó la causa de mi afrenta recibida de mano de Nabal, y ha preservado del mal a su siervo; y Jehová ha vuelto la maldad de Nabal sobre su propia cabeza. Después envió David a hablar con Abigail, para tomarla por su mujer. 40 Y los siervos de David vinieron a Abigail en Carmel, y hablaron con ella, diciendo: David nos ha enviado a ti, para tomarte por su mujer. 41 Y ella se levantó e inclinó su rostro a tierra, diciendo: He aquí tu sierva, que será una sierva para lavar los pies de los siervos de mi señor. 42 Y levantándose luego Abigail con cinco doncellas que le servían, montó en un asno y siguió a los mensajeros de David, y fue su mujer. 43 También tomó David a Ahinoam de Jezreel, y ambas fueron sus mujeres. 44 Porque Saúl había dado a su hija Mical mujer de David a Palti hijo de Lais, que era de Galim.
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 25:25 Esto es, Insensato.
1 Samuel 25
Common English Bible
1 Samuel 25
Common English Bible
Abigail saves David
25 Now Samuel died, and all Israel gathered to mourn for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. David then left and went down to the Maon wilderness.[a]
2 There was a man in Maon who did business in Carmel. He was a very important man and owned three thousand sheep and one thousand goats. At that time, he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. 3 The man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and attractive woman, but her husband was a hard man who did evil things. He was a Calebite.
4 While in the wilderness, David heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep. 5 So David sent ten servants, telling them, “Go up to Carmel. When you get to Nabal, greet him for me. 6 Say this to him: ‘Peace to you,[b] your household, and all that is yours! 7 I’ve heard that you are now shearing sheep. As you know, your shepherds were with us in the wilderness.[c] We didn’t mistreat them. Moreover, the whole time they were at Carmel, nothing of theirs went missing. 8 Ask your servants; they will tell you the same. So please receive these young men favorably, because we’ve come on a special day. Please give whatever you have on hand to your servants and to your son David.’”
9 When David’s young men arrived, they said all this to Nabal on David’s behalf. Then they waited. 10 But Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is David? Who is Jesse’s son? There are all sorts of slaves running away from their masters these days. 11 Why should I take my bread, my water, and the meat I’ve butchered for my shearers and give it to people who came here from who knows where?” 12 So David’s young servants turned around and went back the way they came. When they arrived, they reported every word of this to David.
13 Then David said to his soldiers, “All of you, strap on your swords!” So each of them strapped on their swords, and David did the same. Nearly four hundred men went up with David. Two hundred men remained back with the supplies.
14 One of Nabal’s servants told his wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he just yelled at them. 15 But the men were very good to us and didn’t mistreat us. Nothing of ours went missing the whole time we were out with them in the fields. 16 In fact, the whole time we were with them, watching our sheep, they were a protective wall around us both night and day. 17 Think about that and see what you can do, because trouble is coming for our master and his whole household. But he’s such a despicable person no one can speak to him.”
18 Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep ready for cooking, five seahs[d] of roasted grain, one hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes. She loaded all this on donkeys 19 and told her servants, “Go on ahead of me. I’ll be right behind you.” But she didn’t tell her husband Nabal.
20 As she was riding her donkey, going down a trail on the hillside, David and his soldiers appeared, descending toward her, and she met up with them. 21 David had just been saying, “What a waste of time—guarding all this man’s stuff in the wilderness so that nothing of his went missing! He has repaid me evil instead of good! 22 May God deal harshly with me, David,[e] and worse still if I leave alive even one single one who urinates on a wall[f] belonging to him come morning!”
23 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and fell facedown before him, bowing low to the ground. 24 She fell at his feet and said, “Put the blame on me, my master! But please let me, your servant, speak to you directly. Please listen to what your servant has to say. 25 Please, my master, pay no attention to this despicable man Nabal. He’s exactly what his name says he is! His name means fool,[g] and he is foolish![h] But I myself, your servant, didn’t see the young men that you, my master, sent. 26 I pledge, my master, as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, that the Lord has held you back from bloodshed and taking vengeance into your own hands! But now let your enemies and those who seek to harm my master be exactly like Nabal! 27 Here is a gift, which your servant has brought to my master. Please let it be given to the young men who follow you, my master. 28 Please forgive any offense by your servant. The Lord will definitely make an enduring dynasty for my master because my master fights the Lord’s battles, and nothing evil will be found in you throughout your lifetime. 29 If someone chases after you and tries to kill you, my master, then your life will be bound up securely in the bundle of life[i] by the Lord your God, but he will fling away your enemies’ lives as from the pouch of a sling. 30 When the Lord has done for my master all the good things he has promised you, and has installed you as Israel’s leader, 31 don’t let this be a blot or burden on my master’s conscience, that you shed blood needlessly or that my master took vengeance into his own hands. When the Lord has done good things for my master, please remember your servant.”
32 David said to Abigail, “Bless the Lord God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today! 33 And bless you and your good judgment for preventing me from shedding blood and taking vengeance into my own hands today! 34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord God of Israel lives—the one who kept me from hurting you—if you hadn’t come quickly and met up with me, there wouldn’t be one single one who urinates on a wall left come morning.” 35 Then David accepted everything she had brought for him. “Return home in peace,” he told her. “Be assured that I’ve heard your request and have agreed to it.”
36 When Abigail got back home to Nabal, he was throwing a party fit for a king in his house. Nabal was in a great mood and very drunk, so Abigail didn’t tell him anything until daybreak. 37 In the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him everything. Nabal’s heart failed inside him, and he became like a stone. 38 About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Bless the Lord, who has rendered a verdict regarding Nabal’s insult to me and who kept me, his servant, from doing something evil! The Lord has brought Nabal’s evil down on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, saying that he would take her as his wife.
40 When David’s servants reached Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you so you can become his wife.”
41 She bowed low to the ground and said, “I am your servant, ready to serve and wash the feet of my master’s helpers.” 42 Then Abigail got up quickly and rode on her donkey, with five of her young women going with her. She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.
43 David also married Ahinoam from Jezreel, so both of them were his wives. 44 But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti, Laish’s son, from Gallim.
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 25:1 LXX; MT Paran
- 1 Samuel 25:6 Heb uncertain
- 1 Samuel 25:7 LXX, Syr; MT lacks in the wilderness.
- 1 Samuel 25:18 One seah is approximately seven and a half quarts.
- 1 Samuel 25:22 LXX; MT with David’s enemies
- 1 Samuel 25:22 Descriptive phrase meaning "a male"; also in 25:34
- 1 Samuel 25:25 Heb nabal
- 1 Samuel 25:25 Heb nebalah
- 1 Samuel 25:29 Or bundle of the living; Heb uncertain; perhaps a tied-up scroll (cf Exod 32:32-33; Ps 69:28; Isa 8:16)
1 Samuel 25
King James Version
1 Samuel 25
King James Version
25 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
2 And there was a man in 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.
3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman 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.
4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
6 And thus shall ye say 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.
7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
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 cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
9 And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
12 So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
14 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 on them.
15 But the men were very good 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:
16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.
21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
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 pisseth against the wall.
23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even 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, whom thou didst send.
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 hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the 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.
30 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
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 avenged himself: but when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
33 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
34 For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, 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.
35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
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 nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
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 a stone.
38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.
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 take her to him to wife.
40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
42 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
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