Now in [a]Maon was a man, who had his possession in Carmel, and the man was exceeding mighty, and had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

The name also of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, and she was a woman of singular wisdom, and beautiful, but the man was churlish, and evil conditioned, and was of the family of Caleb.

And David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal did shear his sheep.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:2 Maon and Carmel were cities in the tribe of Judah. Carmel the mountain was in Galilee.

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