1 Samuel 25:13

_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._ Two hundred abode by the stuff. This addition to his followers was made after his return into Judah (see the note at 1 Samuel 22:2)....

12-17 God is kind to the evil and unthankful, and why may not we be so? David determined to destroy Nabal, and all that belonged to him. Is this thy voice, O David? Has he been so long in the school of affliction, where he should have learned patience, and yet is so passionate? He at other times was calm and considerate, but is put into such a heat by a few hard words, that he seeks to destroy a whole family. What are the best of men, when God leaves them to themselves, that they may know what is in their hearts? What need to pray, Lord, lead us not into temptation!...

EXPOSITION DEATH OF SAMUEL (1 Samuel 25:1). 1 SAMUEL 25:1 AND SAMUEL DIED. According to Josephus, Samuel had for eighteen years been contemporaneous with Saul's kingdom. If this calculation, which probably rests upon some Jewish tradition, be at all correct, we must include the years of Samuel's judgeship in the sum total of Saul's reign (see on 1 Samuel 13:1), as evidently his fall was now fast approaching. Samuel's life marked the beginning of the second age of Israelite history (Acts 3:24). Moses had given the people their law, but

AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIS MEN,.... Provoked to the last degree to have such a rude churlish answer returned to such a civil and humble message as he had sent: GIRD YOU ON EVERY MAN HIS SWORD; and prepare to march and chastise Nabal for his insolence: AND THEY GIRDED ON EVERY MAN HIS SWORD; in obedience to David, and in vindication of his honour and their own: AND DAVID ALSO GIRDED ON HIS SWORD; in order to march at the head of them, fired with indignation at the affront given him: AND THERE WENT UP AFTER DAVID ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED MEN; out of the six hundred he had with him, 1 Samuel 23:13; AND TWO HUNDRED ABODE BY THE STUFF; the baggage in their camp; the Targum is, they "were left to watch the vessels;'' the things necessary for their use, for the dressing of their f

CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The death of Samuel (1 Samuel 25:1)_ 2. Nabal and his refusal (1 Samuel 25:2) 3. Abigail's deed and her prayer (1 Samuel 25:14) 4. David's answer to Abigail (1 Samuel 25:32) 5. Nabal's death (1 Samuel 25:36) 6. Abigail becomes David's wife (1 Samuel 25:39) After the death of Samuel, briefly mentioned in the beginning of this chapter, David went still further south into the wil

1 SAMUEL 25:1 A. (TO RAMAH). DEATH AND BURIAL OF SAMUEL. (An editorial addition.) 1 SAMUEL 25:1. IN HIS HOUSE: in the grounds belonging to it. 1 SAMUEL 25:1 B - 1 SAMUEL 25:44. DAVID, NABAL AND ABIGAIL (J). From one of the oldest sources. The story is complete in itself, and has no obvious connexion with any of the other sections. 1 SAMUEL 25:1 B - 1 SAMUEL 25:13. David goes to the wilderness of Paran at the S. of the Araba

STUFF. baggage....

Nabal's churlish behaviour to David 2. _a man in Maon_ Nabal's home was in the city of Maon, and his possessions (or, HIS BUSINESS) about a mile to the north at Carmel. These places are mentioned together in Joshua 15:55. See also note on ch. 1 Samuel 15:12. _very great_ i.e. very rich. The same epithet is applied to (2 Samuel 19:32)....

_Nabal's Shameful Treatment of David._ 1 Samuel 25:2-13 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

DEATH OF SAMUEL. THE INCIDENT OF NABAL. DAVID AND ABIGAIL 1. Paran] That part of the desert between Sinai and Palestine which bordered on Judah....