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Chapter 25 And Samuel died, and all the
Israelites were gathered together,

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and lamented him, and buried him in his
house at Ramah.

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And David arose and went down to the
wilderness of Paran.

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And there was a man in Maon whose
possessions were in Carmel.

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And the man was very great, and he had
three thousand sheep and a thousand goats,

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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.

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And she was a woman of good understanding,
and of a beautiful countenance.

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But the man was churlish and evil in his
doings, and he was of the house of Caleb.

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

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And David sent out ten young men,
and David said unto the young men,

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Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal,
and greet him in my name.

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And thus shall ye say to him that liveth
in prosperity, Peace be both to thee,

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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.

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Now thy shepherds which were with us,
we heard them not, neither was there aught

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missing unto them, all the while they were
in Carmel.

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Ask thy young men, and they will show
thee.

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Wherefore let the young men find favour in
thine eyes, for we come in a good day.

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Give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to
thine hand, unto thy servants,

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and to thy son David.

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And when David's young men came,
they spake to Nabal according to all those

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words in the name of David, and ceased.

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And Nabal answered David's servants,
and said, Who is David, and who is the son

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of Jesse?

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There be many servants nowadays 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

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shearers, and give it unto men whom I know
not whence they be?

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So David's young men turned their way,
and went again, and came, and told him all

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those sayings.

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And David said unto his men, Gird ye on
every man his sword.

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And they girded on every man his sword,
and David also girded on his sword.

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And there went up after David about four
hundred men, and two hundred abode by the

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stuff.

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But one of the young men told Abigail,
Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent

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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

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anything, 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

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keeping the sheep.

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Now therefore know and consider what thou
wilt do, for evil is determined against

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our master, and against all his household.

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For he is such a son of Belial,
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,

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and five sheep ready dressed, and five
measures of parched corn, and an hundred

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clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes
of figs, and laid them on asses.

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And she said unto her servants,
Go on before me, behold, I come after you.

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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 cover of the

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hill.

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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

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wilderness, so that nothing was missed of
all that pertained unto him.

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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

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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

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David on her face, and bowed herself to
the ground, and fell at his feet,

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and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let
this iniquity be.

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And let thine handmaid, I pray thee,
speak in thine audience, and hear the

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words of thine handmaid.

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Let not, my lord, I pray thee,
regard this man of Bilial, even Nabal,

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for as his name is, so is he.

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Nabal is his name, and folly is with him.

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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,

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seeing the lord hath withholden thee from
coming to shed blood, and from avenging

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thyself with thine own hand, now let thine
enemies, and they that seek evil to my

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lord, be as Nabal.

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And now this blessing, which thine
handmaid hath brought unto my lord,

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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

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my lord a sure house, because my lord
fighteth the battles of the lord,

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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.

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But the soul of my lord shall be bound in
the bundle of life with the lord thy God,

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and the souls of thine enemies,
them shall he sling out, as out of the

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middle of a sling.

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And it shall come to pass, when the lord
shall have done to my lord according to

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all the good that he hath spoken
concerning thee, and shall have appointed

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thee ruler over Israel, that this shall be
no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart

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unto my lord, either that thou hast shed
blood causeless, or that my lord hath

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avenged himself.

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But when the lord shall have dealt well
with my lord, then remember thine

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handmaid.

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And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the
lord God of Israel, which sent thee this

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day to meet me.

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And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be
thou which hast kept me this day from

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coming to shed blood, and from avenging
myself with mine own hand.

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For in very deed is the lord God of Israel
liveth, which hath kept me back from

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hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted,
and come to meet me.

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Surely there had not been left unto Nabal,
by the morning light, any that pisseth

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against the wall.

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So David received of her hand that which
she had brought him, and said unto her,

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Go up in peace to thine house.

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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

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feast of a king.

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And Nabal's heart was merry within him,
for he was very drunken.

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Wherefore she told him nothing,
less or more, until the morning light.

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But it came to pass in the morning,
when the wine was gone out of Nabal,

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and his wife had told him these things,
that his heart died within him,

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and he became as a stone.

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And it came to pass about ten days after,
that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.

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And when David heard that Nabal was dead,
he said, Blessed be the Lord, that hath

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pleaded the cause of my reproach from the
hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant

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from evil.

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For the Lord hath returned the wickedness
of Nabal upon his own head.

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And David sent, and communed with Abigail,
to take her to him, to wife.

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And when the servants of David were come
to Abigail, to Carmel, they spake unto

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her, saying, David sent us unto thee,
to take thee to him, to wife.

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And she rose, and bowed herself on her
face to the earth, and said, Behold,

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let thine handmaid be a servant to wash
the feet of the servants of my Lord.

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And Abigail hasted, and arose,
and rode upon an ass with five damsels of

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hers that went after her.

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And she went after the messengers of
David, and became his wife.

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David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel,
and they were also both of them his wives.

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But Saul had given Michael his daughter,
David's wife, to Phaltai, the son of

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Laish, which was of Galam.