1 Samuel 25:29

_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 OF A SLING._ The soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life - an Orientalism, expressing the perfect security of David's life from all the assaults of his enemies, under the protecting shield of Providence, who hath destined him for high things....

18-31 By a present Abigail atoned for Nabal's denial of David's request. Her behaviour was very submissive. Yielding pacifies great offences. She puts herself in the place of a penitent, and of a petitioner. She could not excuse her husband's conduct. She depends not upon her own reasonings, but on God's grace, to soften David, and expects that grace would work powerfully. She says that it was below him to take vengeance on so weak and despicable an enemy as Nabal, who, as he would do him no kindness, so he could do him no hurt. She foretells the glorious end of David's present troubles. God will preserve thy life; therefore it becomes not thee unjustly and unnecessarily to take away the lives of any, especially of the people of thy God and Saviour. Abigail keeps this argument for the last, as very powerful with so good a man; that the less he indulged his passion, the more he consulted...

Verse 1 Samuel 25:29. _SHALL BE BOUND IN THE BUNDLE OF LIFE_] Thy life shall be precious in the sight of the Lord: it shall be found in the bundle of life; it shall be supported by Him who is the _Spring and_ _Fountain of life_, and ever be found _united_ to those who are most favoured by the Almighty. _THEM SHALL HE SLING OUT_] Far from being _bound_ and _kept together_ in union with the Fountain of life, he will cast them off from himself as a stone is cast out from a sling. This betokens both _force_ and _violence_....

IN THE BUNDLE - Rather, “the bag,” in which anything precious, or important to be preserved, was put, and the bag was then tied up (compare Genesis 42:35). THE SOULS ... SHALL HE SLING OUT - The comparison is especially appropriate as addressed to David, whose feat with his sling was so celebrated 1 Samuel 17:49....

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

YET A MAN IS RISEN TO PURSUE THEE, AND TO SEEK THY SOUL,.... His life, to take it away, meaning Saul, whom she chose not to name, because he was king: BUT THE SOUL OF MY LORD SHALL BE BOUND UP IN THE BUNDLE OF LIFE WITH THE LORD THY GOD; should be dear unto the Lord, precious in his esteem, and be carefully preserved by him, among other his chosen ones, and should be safe with him, in his hands, and under his care and keeping; the Jews refer this to eternal life in the world to come, and the safety and security of his soul hereafter; so the Targum, "the soul of my lord shall be treasured up in the treasury of eternal life, before the Lord thy God:'' hence they speak of the souls of the righteous being laid up under the throne of glory e, in proof of which they produce this text; and so Maimonides f understands it of what should be after death, see...

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

MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. BUNDLE OF LIFE. bag (as in 1 Samuel 17:40; 1 Samuel 17:49) of the living. SLING OUT: i.e. like the stones in David's sling....

Abigail's meeting with David 23. _lighted off the ass_ i.e. got down from, an old form of _alighted_. The Heb. word is different from that similarly translated in Joshua 15:18, and simply means "to descend....