1 Samueldied, and all the Israelites came together and mourned for him. Then they buried him at his home in Ramah.
David and Abigail
After this, Davidwent to the wilderness of Paran. 2,3 There was a man of the clan of Caleb named Nabal, who was from the town of Maon, and who owned land near the town of Carmel. He was a very rich man, the owner of three thousand sheep and one thousand goats. His wife Abigailwas beautiful and intelligent, but he was a mean, bad-tempered man.
Nabalwas shearing his sheep in Carmel, 4 and David, who was in the wilderness, heard about it, 5 so he sent ten young men with orders to go to Carmel, find Nabal, and give him his greetings. 6 He instructed them to say to Nabal: "David sends you greetings, my friend, with his best wishes for you, your family, and all that is yours. 7 He heard that you were shearing your sheep, and he wants you to know that your shepherds have been with us and we did not harm them. Nothing that belonged to them was stolen all the time they were at Carmel. 8 Just ask them, and they will tell you. We have come on a feast day, and Davidasks you to receive us kindly. Please give what you can to us your servants and to your dear friend David."
9 David’s men delivered this message to Nabalin David’s name. Then they waited there, 10 and Nabalfinally answered, "David? Who is he? I’ve never heard of him! The country is full of runaway slaves nowadays! 11 I’m not going to take my bread and water, and the animals I have butchered for my sheepshearers, and give them to people who come from I don’t know where!"
12 David’s men went back to him and told him what Nabal had said. 13 "Buckle on your swords!" he ordered, and they all did. Davidalso buckled on his sword and left with about four hundred of his men, leaving two hundred behind with the supplies.
14 One of Nabal’s servants said to Nabal’s wife Abigail, "Have you heard? Davidsent some messengers from the wilderness with greetings for our master, but he insulted them. 15 Yet they were very good to us; they never bothered us, and all the time we were with them in the fields, nothing that belonged to us was stolen. 16 They protected us day and night the whole time we were with them looking after our flocks. 17 Please think this over and decide what to do. This could be disastrous for our master and all his family. He is so mean that he won’t listen to anybody!"
18 Abigailquickly gathered two hundred loaves of bread, two leather bags full of wine, five roasted sheep, two bushelsof roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dried figs, and loaded them on donkeys. 19 Then she said to the servants, "You go on ahead and I will follow you." But she said nothing to her husband.
20 She was riding her donkey around a bend on a hillside when suddenly she met Davidand his men coming toward her. 21 Davidhad been thinking, "Why did I ever protect that fellow’s property out here in the wilderness? Not a thing that belonged to him was stolen, and this is how he pays me back for the help I gave him! 22 May God strike me25.22: One ancient translation me; Hebrew my enemies.dead if I don’t kill every last one of those men before morning!"
23 When Abigailsaw David, she quickly dismounted and threw herself on the ground 24 at David’s feet, and said to him, "Please, sir, listen to me! Let me take the blame. 25 Please, don’t pay any attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing! He is exactly what his name means—a fool!25.25: a fool: This is the meaning of the Hebrew name Nabal.I wasn’t there when your servants arrived, sir. 26 It is the Lordwho has kept you from taking revenge and killing your enemies. And now I swear to you by the living Lordthat your enemies and all who want to harm you will be punished like Nabal. 27 Please, sir, accept this present I have brought you, and give it to your men. 28 Please forgive me, sir, for any wrong I have done. The Lordwill make you king, and your descendants also, because you are fighting his battles; and you will not do anything evil25.28: you will not do anything evil; or no evil will happen to you.as long as you live. 29 If anyone should attack you and try to kill you, the Lordyour God will keep you safe, as someone guards a precious treasure. As for your enemies, however, he will throw them away, as someone hurls stones with a sling. 30 And when the Lordhas done all the good things he has promised you and has made you king of Israel, 31 then you will not have to feel regret or remorse, sir, for having killed without cause or for having taken your own revenge. And when the Lordhas blessed you, sir, please do not forget me."
32 Davidsaid to her, "Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me! 33 Thank God for your good sense and for what you have done today in keeping me from the crime of murder and from taking my own revenge. 34 The Lordhas kept me from harming you. But I swear by the living God of Israel that if you had not hurried to meet me, all of Nabal’s men would have been dead by morning!" 35 Then Davidaccepted what she had brought him and said to her, "Go back home and don’t worry. I will do what you want."
36 Abigailwent back to Nabal, who was at home having a feast fit for a king. He was drunk and in a good mood, so she did not tell him anything until the next morning. 37 Then, after he had sobered up, she told him everything. He suffered a stroke and was completely paralyzed. 38 Some ten days later the Lordstruck Nabaland he died.
39 When Davidheard that Nabalhad died, he said, "Praise the Lord! He has taken revenge on Nabalfor insulting me and has kept me his servant from doing wrong. The Lordhas punished Nabalfor his evil."
Then Davidsent a proposal of marriage to Abigail. 40 His servants went to her at Carmeland said to her, "Davidsent us to take you to him to be his wife."
41 Abigail bowed down to the ground and said, "I am his servant, ready to wash the feet of his servants." 42 She rose quickly and mounted her donkey. Accompanied by her five maids, she went with David’s servants and became his wife.
43 Davidhad married Ahinoamfrom Jezreel, and now Abigail also became his wife. 44 2 S 3.14-16Meanwhile, Saulhad given his daughter Michal, who had been David’s wife, to Paltison of Laish, who was from the town of Gallim.
Pessoa
Tribo de Levi
Samuel
שְׁמוּאֵלshəmuelΣαμουηλSamouēl
Samuel, son of Elkanah and Hannah, was dedicated by his mother to the service of the Lord at Shiloh, judged Israel as a prophet, and anointed Saul and David as kings (1 Samuel 3:20).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Paran is a desert where Israel camped after leaving Hazeroth. From there Moses sent leaders of the Israelites, who returned to Kadesh, in the same desert, with fruit of the land (Numbers 13:26).
Maon was the town where a very wealthy man lived who owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, with property in Carmel; it was also one of the towns of Judah in the hill country (1 Samuel 25:2).
Carmel was the place where Nabal, a very wealthy man, had his property and sheared his sheep; Abigail, who was Nabal’s wife and later David’s, was from there. Saul set up a monument there (1 Samuel 25:2).
Abigail, wife of Nabal of Carmel, brought bread, wine, and prepared sheep to David after her husband railed at the messengers sent by David. She became David’s wife and the mother of Chileab (2 Samuel 3:3).
Carmel was the place where Nabal, a very wealthy man, had his property and sheared his sheep; Abigail, who was Nabal’s wife and later David’s, was from there. Saul set up a monument there (1 Samuel 25:2).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Carmel was the place where Nabal, a very wealthy man, had his property and sheared his sheep; Abigail, who was Nabal’s wife and later David’s, was from there. Saul set up a monument there (1 Samuel 25:2).
Carmel was the place where Nabal, a very wealthy man, had his property and sheared his sheep; Abigail, who was Nabal’s wife and later David’s, was from there. Saul set up a monument there (1 Samuel 25:2).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Abigail, wife of Nabal of Carmel, brought bread, wine, and prepared sheep to David after her husband railed at the messengers sent by David. She became David’s wife and the mother of Chileab (2 Samuel 3:3).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Abigail, wife of Nabal of Carmel, brought bread, wine, and prepared sheep to David after her husband railed at the messengers sent by David. She became David’s wife and the mother of Chileab (2 Samuel 3:3).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Abigail, wife of Nabal of Carmel, brought bread, wine, and prepared sheep to David after her husband railed at the messengers sent by David. She became David’s wife and the mother of Chileab (2 Samuel 3:3).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Abigail, wife of Nabal of Carmel, brought bread, wine, and prepared sheep to David after her husband railed at the messengers sent by David. She became David’s wife and the mother of Chileab (2 Samuel 3:3).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Abigail, wife of Nabal of Carmel, brought bread, wine, and prepared sheep to David after her husband railed at the messengers sent by David. She became David’s wife and the mother of Chileab (2 Samuel 3:3).
Carmel was the place where Nabal, a very wealthy man, had his property and sheared his sheep; Abigail, who was Nabal’s wife and later David’s, was from there. Saul set up a monument there (1 Samuel 25:2).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Saul, son of Kish from the tribe of Benjamin, was the first king of Israel, anointed by Samuel; he disobeyed the Lord, pursued David, and died on Mount Gilboa (1 Samuel 9:2).
Michal was Saul’s younger daughter and David’s wife. She warned David that he would be killed and let him down through a window; later, she despised David in her heart when she saw him dancing before the Lord (2 Samuel 6:16).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).