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1 Samuel 25
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1 Samuel 25
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Muerte de Samuel
25 Murió Samuel, y todo Israel se reunió para su funeral. Lo enterraron en su casa en Ramá.
Nabal hace enojar a David
Luego David bajó al desierto de Maón.[a] 2 Había un hombre rico de Maón que tenía propiedades cerca de la ciudad de Carmelo. Tenía tres mil ovejas y mil cabras, y era el tiempo de la esquila. 3 Este hombre se llamaba Nabal, y su esposa, Abigail, era una mujer sensata y hermosa. Pero Nabal, descendiente de Caleb, era grosero y mezquino en todos sus asuntos.
4 Cuando David se enteró de que Nabal esquilaba sus ovejas, 5 envió a diez de sus hombres jóvenes a Carmelo con el siguiente mensaje para Nabal: 6 «¡Paz y prosperidad para ti, para tu familia y para todo lo que posees! 7 Me dicen que es el tiempo de la esquila. Mientras tus pastores estuvieron entre nosotros cerca de Carmelo, nunca les hicimos daño y nunca se les robó nada. 8 Pregunta a tus propios hombres, y te dirán que es cierto. Así que, ¿podrías ser bondadoso con nosotros, ya que hemos venido en tiempo de celebración? Por favor, comparte con nosotros y con tu amigo David las provisiones que tengas a la mano». 9 Los hombres le dieron este mensaje a Nabal en nombre de David y esperaron la respuesta.
10 «¿Quién es ese tipo David?—les dijo Nabal con desdén—. ¿Quién se cree que es este hijo de Isaí? En estos días hay muchos siervos que se escapan de sus amos. 11 ¿Debo tomar mi pan, mi agua y la carne que destacé para mis esquiladores y dárselos a un grupo de bandidos que viene de quién sabe dónde?».
12 De modo que los hombres de David regresaron y le dijeron lo que Nabal había dicho. 13 «¡Tomen sus espadas!», respondió David mientras se ceñía la suya. Enseguida David salió con cuatrocientos hombres, mientras doscientos se quedaron cuidando las pertenencias.
14 Entre tanto, uno de los siervos de Nabal fue a decirle a Abigail: «David envió mensajeros desde el desierto para saludar a nuestro amo, pero él les respondió con insultos. 15 Estos hombres nos trataron muy bien y nunca sufrimos ningún daño de parte de ellos. Nada nos fue robado durante todo el tiempo que estuvimos con ellos. 16 De hecho, día y noche fueron como un muro de protección para nosotros y nuestras ovejas. 17 Es necesario que usted lo sepa y decida qué hacer, porque habrá problemas para nuestro amo y toda la familia. ¡Nabal tiene tan mal genio que no hay nadie que pueda hablarle!».
18 Sin perder tiempo, Abigail juntó doscientos panes, dos cueros llenos de vino, cinco ovejas destazadas y preparadas, treinta y seis litros[b] de trigo tostado, cien racimos de pasas y doscientos pasteles de higo. Lo cargó todo en burros 19 y les dijo a sus siervos: «Vayan adelante y dentro de poco los seguiré». Pero no le dijo a su esposo Nabal lo que estaba haciendo.
20 Así que, montada en un burro, Abigail entraba a un barranco de la montaña cuando vio a David y a sus hombres acercándose a ella. 21 En ese momento, David decía: «¡De nada sirvió ayudar a este tipo! Protegimos sus rebaños en el desierto y ninguna de sus posesiones se perdió o fue robada. Pero él me devolvió mal por bien. 22 ¡Que Dios me castigue y me mate[c] si tan solo un hombre de su casa queda con vida mañana por la mañana!».
Abigail intercede por Nabal
23 Cuando Abigail vio a David, enseguida bajó de su burro y se inclinó ante él hasta el suelo. 24 Cayó a sus pies y le dijo:
—Toda la culpa es mía en este asunto, mi señor. Por favor, escuche lo que tengo que decir. 25 Sé que Nabal es un hombre perverso y de mal genio; por favor, no le haga caso. Es un necio, como significa su nombre.[d] Pero yo ni siquiera vi a los hombres que usted envió.
26 »Ahora, mi señor, tan cierto como que el Señor vive y que usted vive, ya que el Señor impidió que usted matara y tomara venganza por su propia mano, que todos sus enemigos y los que intenten hacerle daño sean tan malditos como lo es Nabal. 27 Aquí tengo un regalo que yo, su sierva, le he traído a usted y a sus hombres. 28 Le ruego que me perdone si lo he ofendido en alguna manera. El Señor seguramente lo recompensará con una dinastía duradera, porque pelea las batallas del Señor y no ha hecho mal en toda su vida.
29 »Aun cuando lo persigan aquellos que buscan su muerte, su vida estará a salvo al cuidado del Señor su Dios, ¡segura en su bolsa de tesoros! ¡Pero la vida de sus enemigos desaparecerá como piedras lanzadas por una honda! 30 Cuando el Señor haya hecho todo lo que prometió y lo haya hecho líder de Israel, 31 que esta no sea una sombra en su historial. Entonces su conciencia no tendrá que llevar la pesada carga de derramamiento de sangre y venganza innecesarios. Y cuando el Señor haya hecho estas grandes cosas para usted, por favor, ¡acuérdese de mí, su sierva!
32 David le respondió a Abigail:
—¡Alabado sea el Señor, Dios de Israel, quien hoy te ha enviado a mi encuentro! 33 ¡Gracias a Dios por tu buen juicio! Bendita seas, pues me has impedido matar y llevar a cabo mi venganza con mis propias manos. 34 Juro por el Señor, Dios de Israel, quien me ha librado de hacerte daño, que si no te hubieras apresurado a venir a mi encuentro, mañana por la mañana ninguno de los hombres de Nabal habría quedado con vida.
35 Entonces David aceptó su regalo y le dijo:
—Vuelve a tu casa en paz. Escuché lo que dijiste y no mataremos a tu esposo.
36 Cuando Abigail llegó a su casa, encontró a Nabal dando una gran fiesta digna de un rey. Estaba muy borracho, así que no le dijo nada sobre su encuentro con David hasta el amanecer del día siguiente. 37 Por la mañana, cuando Nabal estaba sobrio, su esposa le contó lo que había sucedido. Como consecuencia tuvo un derrame cerebral[e] y quedó paralizado en su cama como una piedra. 38 Unos diez días más tarde, el Señor lo hirió y murió.
David se casa con Abigail
39 Cuando David oyó que Nabal había muerto, dijo: «Alabado sea el Señor, que vengó el insulto que recibí de Nabal y me impidió que tomara venganza por mí mismo. Nabal recibió el castigo por su pecado». Después David envió mensajeros a Abigail pidiéndole que fuera su esposa.
40 Cuando los mensajeros llegaron a Carmelo, le dijeron a Abigail:
—David nos ha enviado para que la llevemos a fin de que se case con él.
41 Entonces ella se inclinó al suelo y respondió:
—Yo, su sierva, estaría encantada de casarme con David. ¡Aun estaría dispuesta a ser una esclava y lavar los pies de sus siervos!
42 Así que enseguida se preparó, llevó a cinco de sus siervas como asistentes, se montó en su burro, y fue con los mensajeros de David. Y se convirtió en su esposa. 43 David también se casó con Ahinoam de Jezreel, así que las dos fueron sus esposas. 44 Mientras tanto, Saúl había dado a su hija Mical, esposa de David, a un hombre de Galim llamado Palti, hijo de Lais.
Footnotes
- 25:1 Así aparece en la versión griega (ver también 25:2); en hebreo dice Parán.
- 25:18 En hebreo 5 seahs [30 cuartos].
- 25:22 Así aparece en la versión griega; en hebreo dice Que Dios castigue y mate a los enemigos de David.
- 25:25 El nombre Nabal significa «necio».
- 25:37 En hebreo le falló el corazón.
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
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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