1 And Sh’mu’el [His name is El] died; and all the Yisra’eli’s were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah [Hill]. And David [beloved] arose, and went down to the wilderness of Pa’ran [place of caverns].

2 And [there was] a man in Ma’on [Habitation], whose possessions [were] in Carmel [Garden-land]; and the man [was] very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel [Garden-land].

3 Now the name of the man [was] Naval [fool]; and the name of his wife Avigayil [my father is joy]: and [she was] a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful Countenance (Face, appearance; show favor): but the man [was] churlish and evil in his doings; and he [was] of the house of Kalev [Dog].

4 And David [beloved] heard in the wilderness that Naval [fool] did shear his sheep.

5 And David [beloved] sent out ten young men, and David [beloved] said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel [Garden-land], and go to Naval [fool], and greet him in my name:

6 And thus shall you2f say to him that lives [in prosperity], Peace [be] both to youi, and peace [be] to youri house, and peace [be] unto all that youi have.

7 And now I have heard that youi have shearers: now youri shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel [Garden-land].

8 Ask youi young men, and they will show youi. For what reason let the young men find favour in youi eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray youi, whatsoever comes to youri hand unto youri servants, and to youri son David [beloved].

9 And when David’s [beloved]’s young men came, they spoke to Naval [fool] according to all those words in the name of David [beloved], and ceased.

10 And Naval [fool] answered David’s [beloved]’s servants, and said, Who [is] David [beloved]? and who [is] the son of Yishai [I possess]? 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 from what place they [be]?

12 So David’s [beloved]’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.

13 And David [beloved] said unto his men, Gird you2f on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David [beloved] also girded on his sword: and there went up after David [beloved] about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

14 But one of the young men told Avigayil [my father is joy], Naval [fool]’s wife, saying, Behold, David [beloved] 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 anything, 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 youi will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he [is such] a son of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing], that [a man] cannot speak to him.

18 Then Avigayil [my father is joy] 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 Naval [fool].

20 And it was [so, as] she rode on the ass, that she came down by the colonnade of the hill, and, behold, David [beloved] and his men came down against her; and she met them.

21 Now David [beloved] had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this [fellow] has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that [pertained] unto him: and he has requited me evil for good.

22 So and more also do God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] unto the enemies of David [beloved], if I leave of all that [pertain] to him by the morning light any that pisses against the wall.

23 And when Avigayil [my father is joy] saw David [beloved], she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David [beloved] 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 youi female servant, I pray youi, speak in youi audience, and hear the words of youi female servant.

25 Let not my lord, I pray youi, regard this man of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing], [even] Naval [fool]: for as his name [is], so [is] he; Naval [fool] [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I youi female servant saw not the young men of my lord, whom youi did send.

26 Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, and [as] youri soul lives, seeing the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has withheld youi from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging yourself with youri own hand, now let youri enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Naval [fool].

27 And now this blessing which youi female servant has brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

28 I pray youi, forgive the trespass of youri female servant: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fights the battles of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and evil has not been found in youi [all] youri days.

29 Yet a man is risen to pursue youi, and to seek youri soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; and the souls of youri enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out] of the middle of a sling.

30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning youi, and shall have appointed youi ruler over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God];

31 That this shall be no grief unto youi, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that youi have shed blood causeless, or that my lord has avenged himself: but when the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember youi female servant.

32 And David [beloved] said to Avigayil [my father is joy], Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which sent youi this day to meet me:

33 And Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] youi advice, and Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] youi, which have kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

34 For in very deed, [as] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] lives, which has kept me back from hurting youi, except youi had hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Naval [fool] by the morning light any that pisses against the wall.

35 So David [beloved] received of her hand [that] which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to youi house; see, I have listened to youi voice, and have accepted youi person.

36 And Avigayil [my father is joy] came to Naval [fool]; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Naval [fool]’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 Naval [fool], 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-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) struck Naval [fool], that he died.

39 And when David [beloved] heard that Naval [fool] was dead, he said, Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that has pleaded the cause of my reproach (disgrace; shame) from the hand of Naval [fool], and has kept his servant from evil: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has returned the wickedness of Naval [fool] upon his own head. And David [beloved] sent and communed with Avigayil [my father is joy], to take her to him to wife.

40 And when the servants of David [beloved] were come to Avigayil [my father is joy] to Carmel [Garden-land], they spoke unto her, saying, David [beloved] sent us unto youi, to take youi to him to wife.

41 And she arose, and bowed herself on [her] face to the earth, and said, Behold, [let] youri female servant [be] a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

42 And Avigayil [my father is joy] hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five female servants of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David [beloved], and became his wife.

43 David [beloved] also took Achino’am [my brother is delight] of Yizre’el [God Sows]; and they were also both of them his wives.

44 But Sha’ul [desired] had given Mikhal [who is like God?] his daughter, David’s [beloved]’s wife, to Palti [my deliverance] the son of Layish [Lion], which [was] of Gallim [springs].