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撒母耳记上 25
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
撒母耳记上 25
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
撒母耳逝世
25 撒母耳死了，以色列眾人都聚集起來，為他哀哭，把他埋葬在拉瑪他自己的家裡。大衛起身，下到巴蘭的曠野去。
大衛遣僕求拿八餽贈
2 在瑪雲有一個人，他的產業在迦密。他是一個很富有的人，有綿羊三千隻，山羊一千隻，那時他正在迦密剪羊毛。 3 那人名叫拿八，他的妻子名叫亞比該。這女人既聰明，又美麗。但那男人為人粗暴，又行事兇惡。他是個迦勒族的人。 4 大衛在曠野聽說拿八正在剪羊毛， 5 就差派十個僕人，對他們說：“你們上迦密去見拿八，以我的名義向他問安。 6 你們要這樣說：‘願你長壽！願你平安！願你的家平安！願你所有的一切都平安！ 7 現在我聽說有人為你剪羊毛。你的牧人與我們在一起的時候，我們都沒有侮辱他們；他們在迦密的日子，也從沒有遺失過甚麼。 8 你可以問問你的僕人，他們必會告訴你。願我派來的這些僕人在你眼前蒙恩，因為我們是在好日子來的，請你把手中所有的，隨便賞賜一點給你的僕人和你的兒子大衛。’”
9 大衛的僕人到了，就以大衛的名義，把這些話都對拿八說了，然後等候答覆。
拿八辱罵僕人
10 拿八回答大衛的僕人說：“大衛是誰？耶西的兒子是誰？現在離開主人逃走的僕人太多了。 11 我怎能把我的餅、我的水，和我為剪羊毛的人宰殺的肉，給那些我不知道從哪裡來的人呢？” 12 於是大衛的僕人轉回原路，回去了。他們到了以後，就把這一切話都告訴大衛。 13 大衛對跟隨他的人說：“你們各人都佩上刀。”他們各人就佩上自己的刀，大衛也佩上自己的刀。跟隨大衛上去的約有四百人，有二百人留下來看守器具。
14 拿八的一個僕人告訴拿八的妻子亞比該說：“大衛從曠野派遣使者來向我們的主人問候，主人卻辱罵了他們。 15 但是，那些人對我們很好。我們在田野與他們往來的時候，他們都沒有侮辱我們，我們也從沒有遺失過甚麼。 16 我們與他們在一起牧羊的日子，他們日夜都作保護我們的牆。 17 現在，你要想一想，看看你該怎麼辦，因為災禍必定臨到我們的主人和他的全家。他是一個性情兇惡的人，沒有人敢對他說話。”
18 亞比該急忙拿了兩百個餅、兩皮袋酒、五隻預備好了的羊、十七公斤烘好了的穗子、一百個葡萄餅、兩百個無花果餅，都馱在驢背上， 19 然後對她的僕人說：“你們先去，我隨著你們來。”這事她卻沒有告訴她的丈夫拿八。 20 亞比該騎著驢，正從山坡下來，忽見大衛和跟隨他的人也正從對面迎著她走下來，亞比該就與他相遇了。 21 大衛曾經說過：“我在曠野看守這人一切所有的，使他一切所有的一樣也沒有失落，實在是白費心機了。他竟然對我以惡報善。 22 如果我讓這人一切所有的，就是一個男丁，留到明天早晨， 神怎樣懲罰大衛的仇敵，願他也怎樣加倍懲罰我。”
亞比該求大衛饒恕
23 亞比該見了大衛，就急忙從驢背下來，俯伏在大衛面前，臉伏於地，向他叩拜。 24 她又俯伏在大衛的腳前，說：“我主啊，願這罪孽歸我。求你容婢女向你講話，求你聽婢女所說的話。 25 請我主不要把這個性情兇惡的人拿八放在心上。因為他的名字怎樣，他的為人也怎樣。他名叫拿八，他也真是愚笨。我主派來的僕人，你的婢女並沒有看見。 26 我主啊，現在我指著永活的耶和華，又在你面前起誓，耶和華既然阻止了你流人的血，又阻止了你親手報仇，願你的仇敵和那些謀害我主的人，都像拿八一樣。 27 現在，請把你婢女給我主帶來的這禮物，賜給跟隨我主的僕人。 28 求你饒恕你婢女的過犯。耶和華必為我主建立一個堅固的家，因為我主為耶和華爭戰；在你一生的日子裡，在你身上也找不到甚麼過錯。 29 雖然有人起來追趕你，尋索你的命，我主的性命必得保全在耶和華你的 神生命的囊中。至於你仇敵的命，耶和華卻要甩去，像從甩石機甩出去一樣。 30 將來耶和華照著他應許的一切善待了你，立了你作以色列的領袖的時候， 31 我主就不致因為無緣無故流人的血或親自報仇而良心不安，心裡有愧了。耶和華恩待了我主以後，求你記念你的婢女。”
大衛息怒
32 大衛對亞比該說：“耶和華以色列的 神是應當稱頌的！他今天差派你來迎接我。 33 你的智慧和你的為人也是應當稱讚的，因為你今天阻止了我流人的血，又阻止了我親手報仇。 34 我指著那攔阻了我加害你的永活的耶和華以色列的 神起誓，如果你不及時來迎見我，到明天早晨，拿八所有的男丁必不留一個。” 35 大衛從亞比該手中接受了她帶來給他的東西，就對她說：“你平平安安回家去吧！你看，我已經聽了你的話，也答應了你的請求。”
拿八之死
36 亞比該到了拿八那裡，他正在家中擺設筵席，好像帝王的筵席一樣。拿八心裡暢快，喝得爛醉如泥，所以無論大事小事亞比該都沒有告訴他，直到第二天早晨。 37 到了早晨，拿八酒醒了，他的妻子才把這些事告訴他，他就嚇得魂不附體，立刻中風癱瘓了。 38 大約過了十天，耶和華擊打拿八，他就死了。
大衛娶亞比該為妻
39 大衛聽見拿八死了，就說：“耶和華是應當稱頌的，因為他為我伸了拿八羞辱我的冤，又阻止了僕人行惡，也使拿八的惡歸到他自己的頭上。”於是大衛派人去對亞比該說要娶她作他的妻子。 40 大衛的僕人到了迦密去見亞比該，對她說：“大衛差派我們到你這裡來，要娶你作他的妻子。” 41 亞比該就起來，面伏於地叩拜，說：“婢女願意作女僕，洗我主人的腳！” 42 亞比該急忙起來，騎上驢，帶著五個跟隨她的女僕，跟從大衛的使者去了，就作了大衛的妻子。
43 大衛先娶了耶斯列人亞希暖，她們二人都作了他的妻子。
44 掃羅已經把他的女兒米甲，就是大衛的妻子，賜給了迦琳人拉億的兒子帕提作妻子。
1 Samuel 25
New International Version
1 Samuel 25
New International Version
David, Nabal and Abigail
25 Now Samuel died,(A) and all Israel assembled and mourned(B) for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah.(C) Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.[a]
2 A certain man in Maon,(D) who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy.(E) He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing(F) in Carmel. 3 His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail.(G) She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.(H)
4 While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep. 5 So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name. 6 Say to him: ‘Long life to you! Good health(I) to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!(J)
7 “‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat(K) them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing. 8 Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever(L) you can find for them.’”
9 When David’s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David’s name. Then they waited.
10 Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who(M) is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days. 11 Why should I take my bread(N) and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”
12 David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word. 13 David said to his men(O), “Each of you strap on your sword!” So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went(P) up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.(Q)
14 One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings,(R) but he hurled insults at them. 15 Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat(S) us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.(T) 16 Night and day they were a wall(U) around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. 17 Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked(V) man that no one can talk to him.”
18 Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs[b] of roasted grain,(W) a hundred cakes of raisins(X) and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.(Y) 19 Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead;(Z) I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell(AA) her husband Nabal.
20 As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them. 21 David had just said, “It’s been useless—all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing.(AB) He has paid(AC) me back evil(AD) for good. 22 May God deal with David,[c] be it ever so severely,(AE) if by morning I leave alive one male(AF) of all who belong to him!”
23 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.(AG) 24 She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord,(AH) and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say. 25 Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool(AI),(AJ) and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent. 26 And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed(AK) and from avenging(AL) yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.(AM) 27 And let this gift,(AN) which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.
28 “Please forgive(AO) your servant’s presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting(AP) dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord’s battles,(AQ) and no wrongdoing(AR) will be found in you as long as you live. 29 Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life,(AS) the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl(AT) away as from the pocket of a sling.(AU) 30 When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler(AV) over Israel, 31 my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember(AW) your servant.”(AX)
32 David said to Abigail, “Praise(AY) be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. 33 May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed(AZ) this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. 34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal(BA) would have been left alive by daybreak.”
35 Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted(BB) your request.”
36 When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high(BC) spirits and very drunk.(BD) So she told(BE) him nothing at all until daybreak. 37 Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.(BF) 38 About ten days later, the Lord struck(BG) Nabal and he died.
39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.”
Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife. 40 His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.”
41 She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord’s servants.” 42 Abigail(BH) quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David’s messengers and became his wife. 43 David had also married Ahinoam(BI) of Jezreel, and they both were his wives.(BJ) 44 But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel[d](BK) son of Laish, who was from Gallim.(BL)
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 25:1 Hebrew and some Septuagint manuscripts; other Septuagint manuscripts Maon
- 1 Samuel 25:18 That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms
- 1 Samuel 25:22 Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew with David’s enemies
- 1 Samuel 25:44 Hebrew Palti, a variant of Paltiel
撒母耳记上 25
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
撒母耳记上 25
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
撒母耳逝世
25 撒母耳死了，以色列眾人都聚集起來，為他哀哭，把他埋葬在拉瑪他自己的家裡。大衛起身，下到巴蘭的曠野去。
大衛遣僕求拿八餽贈
2 在瑪雲有一個人，他的產業在迦密。他是一個很富有的人，有綿羊三千隻，山羊一千隻，那時他正在迦密剪羊毛。 3 那人名叫拿八，他的妻子名叫亞比該。這女人既聰明，又美麗。但那男人為人粗暴，又行事兇惡。他是個迦勒族的人。 4 大衛在曠野聽說拿八正在剪羊毛， 5 就差派十個僕人，對他們說：“你們上迦密去見拿八，以我的名義向他問安。 6 你們要這樣說：‘願你長壽！願你平安！願你的家平安！願你所有的一切都平安！ 7 現在我聽說有人為你剪羊毛。你的牧人與我們在一起的時候，我們都沒有侮辱他們；他們在迦密的日子，也從沒有遺失過甚麼。 8 你可以問問你的僕人，他們必會告訴你。願我派來的這些僕人在你眼前蒙恩，因為我們是在好日子來的，請你把手中所有的，隨便賞賜一點給你的僕人和你的兒子大衛。’”
9 大衛的僕人到了，就以大衛的名義，把這些話都對拿八說了，然後等候答覆。
拿八辱罵僕人
10 拿八回答大衛的僕人說：“大衛是誰？耶西的兒子是誰？現在離開主人逃走的僕人太多了。 11 我怎能把我的餅、我的水，和我為剪羊毛的人宰殺的肉，給那些我不知道從哪裡來的人呢？” 12 於是大衛的僕人轉回原路，回去了。他們到了以後，就把這一切話都告訴大衛。 13 大衛對跟隨他的人說：“你們各人都佩上刀。”他們各人就佩上自己的刀，大衛也佩上自己的刀。跟隨大衛上去的約有四百人，有二百人留下來看守器具。
14 拿八的一個僕人告訴拿八的妻子亞比該說：“大衛從曠野派遣使者來向我們的主人問候，主人卻辱罵了他們。 15 但是，那些人對我們很好。我們在田野與他們往來的時候，他們都沒有侮辱我們，我們也從沒有遺失過甚麼。 16 我們與他們在一起牧羊的日子，他們日夜都作保護我們的牆。 17 現在，你要想一想，看看你該怎麼辦，因為災禍必定臨到我們的主人和他的全家。他是一個性情兇惡的人，沒有人敢對他說話。”
18 亞比該急忙拿了兩百個餅、兩皮袋酒、五隻預備好了的羊、十七公斤烘好了的穗子、一百個葡萄餅、兩百個無花果餅，都馱在驢背上， 19 然後對她的僕人說：“你們先去，我隨著你們來。”這事她卻沒有告訴她的丈夫拿八。 20 亞比該騎著驢，正從山坡下來，忽見大衛和跟隨他的人也正從對面迎著她走下來，亞比該就與他相遇了。 21 大衛曾經說過：“我在曠野看守這人一切所有的，使他一切所有的一樣也沒有失落，實在是白費心機了。他竟然對我以惡報善。 22 如果我讓這人一切所有的，就是一個男丁，留到明天早晨， 神怎樣懲罰大衛的仇敵，願他也怎樣加倍懲罰我。”
亞比該求大衛饒恕
23 亞比該見了大衛，就急忙從驢背下來，俯伏在大衛面前，臉伏於地，向他叩拜。 24 她又俯伏在大衛的腳前，說：“我主啊，願這罪孽歸我。求你容婢女向你講話，求你聽婢女所說的話。 25 請我主不要把這個性情兇惡的人拿八放在心上。因為他的名字怎樣，他的為人也怎樣。他名叫拿八，他也真是愚笨。我主派來的僕人，你的婢女並沒有看見。 26 我主啊，現在我指著永活的耶和華，又在你面前起誓，耶和華既然阻止了你流人的血，又阻止了你親手報仇，願你的仇敵和那些謀害我主的人，都像拿八一樣。 27 現在，請把你婢女給我主帶來的這禮物，賜給跟隨我主的僕人。 28 求你饒恕你婢女的過犯。耶和華必為我主建立一個堅固的家，因為我主為耶和華爭戰；在你一生的日子裡，在你身上也找不到甚麼過錯。 29 雖然有人起來追趕你，尋索你的命，我主的性命必得保全在耶和華你的 神生命的囊中。至於你仇敵的命，耶和華卻要甩去，像從甩石機甩出去一樣。 30 將來耶和華照著他應許的一切善待了你，立了你作以色列的領袖的時候， 31 我主就不致因為無緣無故流人的血或親自報仇而良心不安，心裡有愧了。耶和華恩待了我主以後，求你記念你的婢女。”
大衛息怒
32 大衛對亞比該說：“耶和華以色列的 神是應當稱頌的！他今天差派你來迎接我。 33 你的智慧和你的為人也是應當稱讚的，因為你今天阻止了我流人的血，又阻止了我親手報仇。 34 我指著那攔阻了我加害你的永活的耶和華以色列的 神起誓，如果你不及時來迎見我，到明天早晨，拿八所有的男丁必不留一個。” 35 大衛從亞比該手中接受了她帶來給他的東西，就對她說：“你平平安安回家去吧！你看，我已經聽了你的話，也答應了你的請求。”
拿八之死
36 亞比該到了拿八那裡，他正在家中擺設筵席，好像帝王的筵席一樣。拿八心裡暢快，喝得爛醉如泥，所以無論大事小事亞比該都沒有告訴他，直到第二天早晨。 37 到了早晨，拿八酒醒了，他的妻子才把這些事告訴他，他就嚇得魂不附體，立刻中風癱瘓了。 38 大約過了十天，耶和華擊打拿八，他就死了。
大衛娶亞比該為妻
39 大衛聽見拿八死了，就說：“耶和華是應當稱頌的，因為他為我伸了拿八羞辱我的冤，又阻止了僕人行惡，也使拿八的惡歸到他自己的頭上。”於是大衛派人去對亞比該說要娶她作他的妻子。 40 大衛的僕人到了迦密去見亞比該，對她說：“大衛差派我們到你這裡來，要娶你作他的妻子。” 41 亞比該就起來，面伏於地叩拜，說：“婢女願意作女僕，洗我主人的腳！” 42 亞比該急忙起來，騎上驢，帶著五個跟隨她的女僕，跟從大衛的使者去了，就作了大衛的妻子。
43 大衛先娶了耶斯列人亞希暖，她們二人都作了他的妻子。
44 掃羅已經把他的女兒米甲，就是大衛的妻子，賜給了迦琳人拉億的兒子帕提作妻子。
1 Samuel 25
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1 Samuel 25
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David, Nabal and Abigail
25 Now Samuel died,(A) and all Israel assembled and mourned(B) for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah.(C) Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.[a]
2 A certain man in Maon,(D) who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy.(E) He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing(F) in Carmel. 3 His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail.(G) She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.(H)
4 While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep. 5 So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name. 6 Say to him: ‘Long life to you! Good health(I) to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!(J)
7 “‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat(K) them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing. 8 Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever(L) you can find for them.’”
9 When David’s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David’s name. Then they waited.
10 Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who(M) is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days. 11 Why should I take my bread(N) and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”
12 David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word. 13 David said to his men(O), “Each of you strap on your sword!” So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went(P) up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.(Q)
14 One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings,(R) but he hurled insults at them. 15 Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat(S) us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.(T) 16 Night and day they were a wall(U) around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. 17 Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked(V) man that no one can talk to him.”
18 Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs[b] of roasted grain,(W) a hundred cakes of raisins(X) and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.(Y) 19 Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead;(Z) I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell(AA) her husband Nabal.
20 As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them. 21 David had just said, “It’s been useless—all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing.(AB) He has paid(AC) me back evil(AD) for good. 22 May God deal with David,[c] be it ever so severely,(AE) if by morning I leave alive one male(AF) of all who belong to him!”
23 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.(AG) 24 She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord,(AH) and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say. 25 Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool(AI),(AJ) and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent. 26 And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed(AK) and from avenging(AL) yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.(AM) 27 And let this gift,(AN) which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.
28 “Please forgive(AO) your servant’s presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting(AP) dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord’s battles,(AQ) and no wrongdoing(AR) will be found in you as long as you live. 29 Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life,(AS) the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl(AT) away as from the pocket of a sling.(AU) 30 When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler(AV) over Israel, 31 my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember(AW) your servant.”(AX)
32 David said to Abigail, “Praise(AY) be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. 33 May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed(AZ) this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. 34 Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal(BA) would have been left alive by daybreak.”
35 Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted(BB) your request.”
36 When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high(BC) spirits and very drunk.(BD) So she told(BE) him nothing at all until daybreak. 37 Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.(BF) 38 About ten days later, the Lord struck(BG) Nabal and he died.
39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.”
Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife. 40 His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.”
41 She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord’s servants.” 42 Abigail(BH) quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David’s messengers and became his wife. 43 David had also married Ahinoam(BI) of Jezreel, and they both were his wives.(BJ) 44 But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel[d](BK) son of Laish, who was from Gallim.(BL)
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 25:1 Hebrew and some Septuagint manuscripts; other Septuagint manuscripts Maon
- 1 Samuel 25:18 That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms
- 1 Samuel 25:22 Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew with David’s enemies
- 1 Samuel 25:44 Hebrew Palti, a variant of Paltiel
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