Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, the skins used for this purpose in the Orient, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, more than forty quarts of roasted gram, and an hundred clusters of raisins, in the form of cakes made of pressed raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, also in the pressed form, and laid them on asses.
Verse 1 Samuel 25:18. _TOOK TWO HUNDRED LOAVES_] The Eastern bread is ordinarily both _thin_ and _small_; and answers to our _cakes_. _TWO BOTTLES OF WINE_] That is, two goat-skins full. The hide is...
TWO BOTTLES - Rather, “two skins,” each of which would contain many gallons. These leather vessels varied in size according to the skin they were made of, and the use they were to be put to. The small...
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 25:1 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 -...
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), emphasising Abigail's thought and care, as well as rapidity. measures. See App-51....
Abigail's wise counsel 14. _to salute_ Lit. _to bless_, as in ch. 1 Samuel 13:10. Cp. 2 Kings 4:29, and the form of salutation in 1 Samuel 15:13. _he railed on them_ Lit. FLEW UPON THEM; the sa
_Abigail made haste, and took_ A store of provisions was prepared for the shearing feast (1 Samuel 25:11). For the different items of the present compare 2 Samuel 16:1; 1 Chronicles 12:40. two bottles...
_Abigail Appeals to David._ 1 Samuel 25:14-38 14 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 o...
_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 CAK...
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....
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 25 SAMUEL THE *PROPHET DIES V1 Samuel died. All the *Israelites met together and were very sad. Then they buried Samuel in his home town of Ra...
FIVE MEASURES. — The LXX. alter the measure into five ephahs, thinking the quantity in the text ridiculously small for such an host as followed David. Ewald too, would change 5 into 500; but the truth...
וַ תְּמַהֵ֣ר _אֲבִיגַ֡יִל_† וַ תִּקַּח֩ מָאתַ֨יִם לֶ֜חֶם
CHAPTER XXXII. _ DAVID AND NABAL._ 1 Samuel 25:1. WE should be forming far too low an estimate of the character of the people of Israel if we did not believe that they were very profoundly moved by...
A WISE WOMAN'S PLEA 1 Samuel 25:18 What a contrast between the sordid Nabal and his beautiful wife-as lovely in disposition as in face! What a terrible trial for such a woman to be united with a man...
We now have the account of Samuel's death. Notwithstanding all Israel's failure to realize his high ideals, it was impossible that they should not recognize his greatness, and it is easy to believe th...
Raisins. Hebrew tsimmukim, "dried raisins," or clusters of an extraordinary size. Roger speaks of some gathered in the vale of Sorec, which weighed 25\'bd pounds. (the year of the Lord 1634.) Septuagi...
(18) В¶ 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 hund...
We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
At length Samuel dies. This forms an epoch, because he who was the true link between the people and God was gone. Israel acknowledged him when dead, although they had despised him while living. And no...
THEN ABIGAIL MADE HASTE,.... As the case required, her family being in imminent danger: AND TOOK TWO HUNDRED LOAVES; of bread; of what size or weight they were is not said; though it may be reasonabl...
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 ca...
_Then Abigail took two hundred loaves_, &c. This shows he was a great man, who had plenty of provisions in his house. Abigail did this of her own accord, without her husband's leave, because it was a...
1 Samuel dieth. 2 Dauid in Paran sendeth to Nabal. 10 Prouoked by Nabals churlishnesse, hee mindeth to destroy him. 14 Abigail vnderstanding thereof, 18 taketh a present, 23 and by her wisedome...
David's moral victory over Saul and over his own natural instincts has been most admirable. However, in this chapter we see him showing just the opposite attitude. It seems hardly possible that this c...
CLUSTERS: Or, lumps...
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 pet...
ABIGAIL TOOK TWO HUNDRED LOAVES; which she did without his leave, and against his mind, because it was a case of apparent necessity, for the preservation of herself, and husband, and all the family fr...
1 Samuel 25:18 Abigail H26 haste H4116 (H8762) took H3947 (H8799) hundred H3967 bread H3899 two H8147 skins...
DAVID'S REACTION. Humanly speaking David's reaction was inevitable. What Nabal had said was deliberately insulting, contrary to custom and an act of open hostility. It was a refusal to accept the norm...
ABIGAIL INFORMS NABAL OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED AND NABAL HAS A HEART ATTACK AND DIES (1 SAMUEL 25:6 B). On receiving news from Abigail about how close they had come to disaster Nabal had a stroke and die...
CONTENTS: Samuel's death; David and Nabal. Abigail becomes David's wife, and also Ahinoam. CHARACTERS: God, David, Samuel, Nabal, Abigail. CONCLUSION: Let the believer be encouraged to commit his ca...
1 Samuel 25:1. _Samuel died,_ four months, say the rabbins, before the death of Saul. The elders of the nation from all the tribes attended, to behold the glory of a setting sun, which left its lustre...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 25:2. “MAON.” A city of Judah (Joshua 15:55), situated on a hill now called _Tell Main_, about seven or eight miles south of Hebron. It is now in ruins. “CARMEL...
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 p...
Now Samuel died; and all of the Israelites were gathered together, and lamenting him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. And there wa...
1 Samuel 25:34; 2 Samuel 16:1; 2 Samuel 17:28; 2 Samuel 17:29;...
Abigail took, &c. — This she did without his leave, because it was a case of apparent necessity, for the preservation of herself, and husband, and all the family from imminent ruin. And surely, that n...