_AND SAMUEL DIED; AND ALL THE ISRAELITES WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND LAMENTED HIM, AND BURIED HIM IN HIS HOUSE AT RAMAH. AND DAVID AROSE, AND WENT DOWN TO THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN._ Samuel died - after a long life of piety and public usefulness, having left behind him a reputation which ranks him am... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ There was a man in Maon. This city, which belonged to the tribe of Judah (John 15:55), was situated on the bro... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ He was of the house of Caleb - of course, of the same tribe with David... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID HEARD IN THE WILDERNESS THAT NABAL DID SHEAR HIS SHEEP._ NABAL DID SHEAR HIS SHEEP.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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:_ And David sent out ten young men ... David and his men lurked in these deserts, associating with the herdsmen and shepherds of Nabal and others, and doing them goo... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 UNTO ALL THAT THOU HAST._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NABAL ANSWERED DAVID'S SERVANTS, AND SAID, WHO IS DAVID? AND WHO IS THE SON OF JESSE? THERE BE MANY SERVANTS NOW A DAYS THAT BREAK AWAY EVERY MAN FROM HIS MASTER._ Who is David? ... Nabal's answer seems to indicate that the country was at that time in a loose and disorderly state. David's own... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 WHENCE THEY BE?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 mad... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN TOLD ABIGAIL, NABAL'S WIFE, SAYING, BEHOLD, DAVID SENT MESSENGERS OUT OF THE WILDERNESS TO SALUTE OUR MASTER; AND HE RAILED ON THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ABIGAIL 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._ Then Abigail made haste. The prudence and address of his wife... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE SAID UNTO HER SERVANTS, GO ON BEFORE ME; BEHOLD, I COME AFTER YOU. BUT SHE TOLD NOT HER HUSBAND NABAL._ Go on before me; behold, I come after you. People in the East always try to produce an effect by their presents, loading on several beasts what might be easily carried by one, and bringi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT WAS SO, AS SHE RODE ON THE ASS, THAT SHE CAME DOWN BY THE COVERT OF THE HILL, AND, BEHOLD, DAVID AND HIS MEN CAME DOWN AGAINST HER; AND SHE MET THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW DAVID HAD SAID, SURELY IN VAIN HAVE I KEPT ALL THAT THIS FELLOW HATH IN THE WILDERNESS, SO THAT NOTHING WAS MISSED OF ALL THAT PERTAINED UNTO HIM: AND HE HATH REQUITED ME EVIL FOR GOOD._ Now David had said ...... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO AND MORE ALSO DO GOD UNTO THE ENEMIES OF DAVID, IF I LEAVE OF ALL THAT PERTAIN TO HIM BY THE MORNING LIGHT ANY THAT PISSETH AGAINST THE WALL._ So and more also do God unto the enemies of David. In making this vow utterly to destroy Nabal's house, David committed sin. The fulfillment of it by th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN ABIGAIL SAW DAVID, SHE HASTED, AND LIGHTED OFF THE ASS, AND FELL BEFORE DAVID ON HER FACE, AND BOWED HERSELF TO THE GROUND,_ She hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face. Dismounting in presence of a superior is the highest token of respect that can be given; and... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND FELL AT HIS FEET, AND SAID, UPON ME, MY LORD, UPON ME LET THIS INIQUITY BE: AND LET THINE HANDMAID, I PRAY THEE, SPEAK IN THINE AUDIENCE, AND HEAR THE WORDS OF THINE HANDMAID._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET NOT MY LORD, I PRAY THEE, REGARD THIS MAN OF BELIAL, EVEN NABAL: FOR AS HIS NAME IS, SO IS HE; NABAL IS HIS NAME, AND FOLLY IS WITH HIM: BUT I THINE HANDMAID SAW NOT THE YOUNG MEN OF MY LORD, WHOM THOU DIDST SEND._ Nabal - signifying fool, gave pertinence to his wife's remarks.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE, MY LORD, AS THE LORD LIVETH, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH, SEEING THE LORD HATH WITHHOLDEN THEE FROM COMING TO SHED BLOOD, AND FROM AVENGING THYSELF WITH THINE OWN HAND, NOW LET THINE ENEMIES, AND THEY THAT SEEK EVIL TO MY LORD, BE AS NABAL._ Let thine enemies ... be as Nabal - be as fool... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND NOW THIS BLESSING WHICH THINE HANDMAID HATH BROUGHT UNTO MY LORD, LET IT EVEN BE GIVEN UNTO THE YOUNG MEN THAT FOLLOW MY LORD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 O... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN THE LORD SHALL HAVE DONE TO MY LORD ACCORDING TO ALL THE GOOD THAT HE HATH SPOKEN CONCERNING THEE, AND SHALL HAVE APPOINTED THEE RULER OVER ISRAEL;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID TO ABIGAIL, BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHICH SENT THEE THIS DAY TO MEET ME:_ David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord. Transported by passions, and blinded by revenge, he was on the eve of perpetrating a great injury; and, doubtless, the timely appearance and prudent addre... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BLESSED BE THY ADVICE, AND BLESSED BE THOU, WHICH HAST KEPT ME THIS DAY FROM COMING TO SHED BLOOD, AND FROM AVENGING MYSELF WITH MINE OWN HAND._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABIGAIL CAME TO NABAL; AND, BEHOLD, HE HELD A FEAST IN HIS HOUSE, LIKE THE FEAST OF A KING; AND NABAL'S HEART WAS MERRY WITHIN HIM, FOR HE WAS VERY DRUNKEN: WHEREFORE SHE TOLD HIM NOTHING, LESS OR MORE, UNTIL THE MORNING LIGHT._ He held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. The sheep... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, WHEN THE WINE WAS GONE OUT OF NABAL, AND HIS WIFE HAD TOLD HIM THESE THINGS, THAT HIS HEART DIED WITHIN HIM, AND HE BECAME AS A STONE._ In the morning ... his wife ... told him these things. He probably fainted, from horror at the perilous situation in which he... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS ABOUT TEN DAYS AFTER, THAT THE LORD SMOTE NABAL, THAT HE DIED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN DAVID HEARD THAT NABAL WAS DEAD, HE SAID, BLESSED BE THE LORD, THAT HATH PLEADED THE CAUSE OF MY REPROACH FROM THE HAND OF NABAL, AND HATH KEPT HIS SERVANT FROM EVIL: FOR THE LORD HATH RETURNED THE WICKEDNESS OF NABAL UPON HIS OWN HEAD. AND DAVID SENT AND COMMUNED WITH ABIGAIL, TO TAKE HER... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE SERVANTS OF DAVID WERE COME TO ABIGAIL TO CARMEL, THEY SPAKE UNTO HER, SAYING, DAVID SENT US UNTO THEE, TO TAKE THEE TO HIM TO WIFE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT SAUL HAD GIVEN MICHAL HIS DAUGHTER, DAVID'S WIFE, TO PHALTI THE SON OF LAISH, WHICH WAS OF GALLIM._ Michal. By the unchallengeable will of her father, she who was David's wife was given to another; but she returned, and sustained the character of his wife when he ascended the throne. PHAITI... [ Continue Reading ]