strkjv 1Samuel:25:2-36 SEEK
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And there was a man in Maon Ma #
own #,
whose possessions were in Carmel ;
and the man was very great ,
and he had three thousand sheep tso #
n #,
and a thousand goats :
and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel .
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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 to #
ar #:
but the man was churlish and evil in his doings ma #
alal #;
and he was of the house of Caleb .
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And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep tso #
n #.
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And David sent out ten young men na #
ar #,
and David said unto the young men na #
ar #,
Get you up to Carmel ,
and go to Nabal ,
and greet sha #
him in my name :
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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 .
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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 .
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Ask thy young men na #
ar #,
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 .
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And when Davids young men came ,
they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David ,
and ceased .
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And Nabal answered Davids 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 .
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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 ?
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So Davids young men turned their way ,
and went again ,
and came and told him all those sayings .
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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 .
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But one of the young men told Abigail ,
Nabals wife ,
saying ,
Behold ,
David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master ;
and he railed on them .
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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 :
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They were a wall unto us both by night and day ,
all the while we were with them keeping the sheep tso #
n #.
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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 b @
liya #
al #,
that a man cannot speak to him .
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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 .
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And she said unto her servants na #
ar #,
Go on before me ;
behold ,
I come after you .
But she told not her husband Nabal .
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And it was so ,
as she rode on the ass ,
that she came down by the covert of the hill ,
and ,
behold ,
David and his men came down against her ;
and she met them .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ,
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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 .
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Let not my lord ,
I pray thee ,
regard this man of Belial b @
liya #
al #,
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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 tavek #
of a sling .
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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 Yisra #
el #;
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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 .
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And David said to Abigail ,
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel Yisra #
el #,
which sent thee this day to meet me :
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And blessed be thy advice ta #
am #,
and blessed be thou ,
which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood ,
and from avenging myself with mine own hand .
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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 .
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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 .
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And Abigail came to Nabal ;
and ,
behold ,
he held a feast in his house ,
like the feast of a king ;
and Nabals heart was merry within him ,
for he was very drunken :
wherefore she told him nothing ,
less or more ,
until the morning light .