1 Samuel 25
Ang Dating Biblia (1905)
25 At namatay si Samuel; at nagpipisan ang buong Israel, at pinanaghuyan siya, at inilibing siya sa kaniyang bahay sa Rama. At bumangon si David, at lumusong sa ilang ng Paran.
2 At may isang lalake sa Maon, na ang mga pag-aari ay nasa Carmelo; at ang lalake ay lubhang dakila, at siya'y mayroong tatlong libong tupa, at isang libong kambing; at kaniyang ginugupitan ng balahibo ang kaniyang tupa sa Carmelo.
3 Ang pangalan nga ng lalake ay Nabal; at ang pangalan ng kaniyang asawa ay Abigail: at ang babae ay matalino, at may magandang pagmumukha; nguni't ang lalake ay masungit at masama sa kaniyang mga gawa; at siya'y supling sa sangbahayan ni Caleb.
4 At narinig ni David sa ilang na ginugupitan ni Nabal ng balahibo ang kaniyang tupa.
5 At nagsugo si David ng sangpung bataan, at sinabi ni David sa mga bataan, Umahon kayo sa Carmelo, at kayo'y pumaroon kay Nabal, at batiin ninyo siya sa aking pangalan:
6 At ganito ang sasabihin ninyo sa kaniya na nabubuhay na maginhawa, Kapayapaan nawa ang sumaiyo, at kapayapaan nawa ang sumaiyong sangbahayan, at kapayapaan nawa ang suma lahat ng iyong tinatangkilik.
7 At ngayo'y aking narinig na ikaw ay nagpapagupit ng balahibo ng tupa; ang iyong mga pastor nga ay nasa sa amin, at hindi namin inano sila, o nagkulang man ng anomang bagay sa kanilang buong panahon na kanilang ikinaroon sa Carmelo.
8 Tanungin mo ang iyong mga bataan at kanilang sasaysayin sa iyo: kaya't makasumpong nawa ng biyaya sa iyong mga mata ang mga bataan; sapagka't kami ay naparito sa mabuting araw: isinasamo ko sa iyo, na ibigay mo ang anomang masumpungan mo ng iyong kamay, sa iyong mga lingkod, at sa iyong anak na kay David.
9 At nang dumating ang mga bataan ni David, kanilang sinalita kay Nabal ang ayon sa lahat ng mga salitang yaon sa pangalan ni David, at nagsitahimik.
10 At sinagot ni Nabal ang mga lingkod ni David, at nagsabi, Sino si David? at sino ang anak ni Isai? maraming mga bataan ngayon sa mga araw na ito na nagsisilayas bawa't isa sa kaniyang panginoon.
11 Akin nga bang kukunin ang aking tinapay at ang aking tubig, at ang aking hayop na aking pinatay dahil sa aking mga manggugupit, at aking ibibigay sa mga tao na hindi ko nakikilala kung taga saan?
12 Sa gayo'y ang mga bataan ni David ay pumihit sa kanilang lakad, at nagsibalik, at naparoon, at isinaysay sa kaniya ang ayon sa lahat ng mga salitang ito.
13 At sinabi ni David sa kaniyang mga lalake, Ibigkis ng bawa't isa sa inyo ang kaniyang tabak. At nagbigkis ang bawa't isa ng kaniyang tabak; at si David ay nagbigkis din ng kaniyang tabak: at ang umahon na sumunod kay David ay may apat na raang lalake; at naiwan ang dalawang daan sa daladalahan.
14 Nguni't isinaysay ng isa sa mga bataan kay Abigail, na asawa ni Nabal, na sinasabi, Narito, si David ay nagsugo ng mga sugo mula sa ilang upang bumati sa ating panginoon; at kaniyang tinanggihan.
15 Nguni't ang mga lalake ay napakabuti sa amin, at hindi kami sinaktan, o nagkulang man ng anomang bagay habang kami ay nakikisama sa kanila, nang kami ay nasa mga parang:
16 Sila'y naging kuta sa amin sa gabi at gayon din sa araw buong panahong aming ikinaroon sa kanila sa pagaalaga ng mga tupa.
17 Ngayon nga'y iyong alamin at dilidilihin kung ano ang iyong gagawin; sapagka't ang kasamaan ay ipinasiya na laban sa ating panginoon, at laban sa kaniyang buong sangbahayan: sapagka't siya'y isang hamak na tao, na sinoma'y hindi makapakiusap sa kaniya.
18 Nang magkagayo'y nagmadali si Abigail, at kumuha ng dalawang daang tinapay, at dalawang balat ng alak, at limang handang tupa, at limang takal ng trigo na sinangag, at isang daang kumpol na pasas, at dalawang daang binilong igos, at ipinagpapasan sa mga asno.
19 At sinabi niya sa kaniyang mga bataan, Magpauna kayo sa akin; narito ako'y susunod sa inyo. Nguni't hindi niya isinaysay sa kaniyang asawang kay Nabal.
20 At nagkagayon na samantalang siya'y nakasakay sa kaniyang asno at lumulusong sa isang kubling dako ng bundok na narito, si David at ang kaniyang mga lalake ay lumulusong na patungo sa kaniya, at sinalubong niya sila.
21 Sinabi nga ni David, Tunay na walang kabuluhang aking iningatan ang lahat na tinatangkilik ng taong yaon sa ilang, na anopa't hindi nawala ang anoman sa lahat na nauukol sa kaniya: at kaniyang iginanti sa akin ay masama sa mabuti.
22 Hatulan nawa ng Dios ang mga kaaway ni David, at lalo na, kung ako'y magiwan ng labis sa lahat na nauukol sa kaniya sa pagbubukang liwayway kahit isang batang lalake.
23 At nang makita ni Abigail si David, ay nagmadali siya, at lumunsad sa kaniyang asno, at nagpatirapa sa harap ni David at yumukod sa lupa.
24 At siya'y nagpatirapa sa kaniyang mga paa at nagsabi, Mapasa akin, panginoon ko, mapasa akin ang kasamaan: at isinasamo ko sa iyo na iyong papagsalitain ang iyong lingkod sa iyong mga pakinig, at iyong dinggin ang mga salita ng iyong lingkod.
25 Isinasamo ko sa iyo, na ang aking panginoon ay huwag makitungo sa lalaking ito na hamak, sa makatuwid baga'y kay Nabal; sapagka't kung ano ang kaniyang pangalan ay gayon siya: Nabal ang kaniyang pangalan, at ang kamangmangan ay sumasakaniya: nguni't akong iyong lingkod, hindi nakakita sa mga bataan ng aking panginoon, na iyong sinugo.
26 Ngayon nga, panginoon ko, buhay ang Panginoon, at buhay ang iyong kaluluwa, yamang ikaw ay pinigil ng Panginoon sa pagbububo ng dugo, at sa panghihiganti mo ng iyong sariling kamay kaya nga ang iyong mga kaaway at yaong mga umuusig ng kasamaan sa aking panginoon ay maging gaya ni Nabal.
27 At ngayo'y itong kaloob na dinala ng iyong lingkod sa aking panginoon ay mabigay sa mga bataan na sumusunod sa aking panginoon.
28 Isinasamo ko sa iyo na iyong ipatawad ang pagkasalangsang ng iyong lingkod: sapagka't tunay na gagawin ng Panginoon ang aking panginoon ng isang sangbahayan na tiwasay, sapagka't ibinabaka ng aking panginoon ang mga pagbabaka ng Panginoon; at ang kasamaan ay hindi masusumpungan sa iyo sa lahat ng iyong mga araw.
29 At bagaman bumangon ang isang lalake upang habulin ka, at usigin ang iyong kaluluwa, gayon ma'y ang kaluluwa ng aking panginoon ay matatali sa talian ng buhay na kasama ng Panginoon mong Dios; at ang mga kaluluwa ng iyong mga kaaway, ay pahihilagpusin niya, na parang mula sa gitna ng isang panghilagpos.
30 At mangyayari, pagka nagawa ng Panginoon sa aking panginoon ang ayon sa lahat ng mabuti na kaniyang sinalita tungkol sa iyo, at kaniyang naihalal ka na prinsipe sa Israel;
31 Na ito'y hindi magiging kalumbayan sa iyo o kutog man ng loob sa aking panginoon, maging ikaw ay nagbubo ng dugo sa walang kabuluhan, o gumanti ng sa kaniyang sarili ang aking panginoon: at pagka gumawa ang Panginoon ng mabuti sa aking panginoon, alalahanin mo nga ang iyong lingkod.
32 At sinabi ni David kay Abigail, Purihin nawa ang Panginoon, ang Dios ng Israel, na nagsugo sa iyo sa araw na ito upang salubungin ako:
33 At purihin nawa ang iyong kabaitan, at pagpalain ka, na pumigil sa akin sa araw na ito sa pagbububo ng dugo, at sa panghihiganti ng aking sariling kamay.
34 Sapagka't tunay, buhay ang Panginoon, ang Dios ng Israel na siyang pumigil sa akin sa pagsakit sa iyo, kundi ka nagmadali, at pumaritong sumalubong sa akin, tunay na walang malalabi kay Nabal sa pagbubukang liwayway kahit isang batang lalake.
35 Sa gayo'y tinanggap ni David sa kaniyang kamay ang dinala niya sa kaniya: at sinabi niya sa kaniya, Umahon kang payapa na umuwi sa iyong bahay; tingnan mo, aking dininig ang iyong tinig, at aking tinanggap ang iyong pagkatao.
36 At naparoon si Abigail kay Nabal; at, narito, siya'y gumawa ng isang kasayahan sa kaniyang bahay, na gaya ng pagsasaya ng isang hari; at ang puso ni Nabal ay nagalak sa kaniyang loob, sapagka't siya'y lubhang nalango; kaya't siya'y hindi nagsaysay sa kaniya ng anoman, munti o malaki, hanggang sa pagbubukang liwayway.
37 At nangyari sa kinaumagahan, nang ang alak ay mapawi kay Nabal, na isinaysay ng asawa niya sa kaniya ang mga bagay na ito, at nagkasakit siya sa puso, at siya'y naging parang isang bato.
38 At nangyari, pagkaraan ng may sangpung araw, at sinaktan ng Panginoon si Nabal, na anopa't siya'y namatay.
39 At nang mabalitaan ni David na si Nabal ay namatay, ay kaniyang sinabi, Purihin nawa ang Panginoon na siyang nagsanggalang ng aking kadustaan mula sa kamay ni Nabal, at pinigil ang kaniyang lingkod sa kasamaan: at ang masamang gawa ni Nabal ay ibinalik ng Panginoon sa kaniyang sariling ulo. At nagsugo si David upang salitain kay Abigail na kunin siya na maging asawa niya.
40 At nang dumating ang mga lingkod ni David kay Abigail sa Carmelo, ay kanilang sinalita sa kaniya, na sinasabi, Sinugo kami ni David sa iyo, upang kunin ka na maging asawa niya.
41 At siya'y bumangon at nagpatirapa sa lupa, at nagsabi, Narito, ang iyong lingkod ay isang aba upang maghugas ng mga paa ng mga lingkod ng aking panginoon.
42 At nagmadali si Abigail, at bumangon, at sumakay sa isang asno, na kasama ng limang dalaga niya na sumusunod sa kaniya; at siya'y sumunod sa mga sugo ni David, at naging kaniyang asawa.
43 Kinuha naman ni David si Ahinoam, na taga Jezreel; at sila'y kapuwa naging asawa niya.
44 Ngayo'y ibinigay ni Saul si Michal na kaniyang anak, na asawa ni David, kay Palti na anak ni Lais na taga Gallim.
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
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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