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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 ...
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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 -...
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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 d...
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WHEN ABIGAIL SAW DAVID, &C.— Abigail was a woman of distinguished
merit. She had the advantage of a beautiful person, set off by an
excellent understanding, a graceful address, and uncommon prudence;...
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_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...
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_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 he...
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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....
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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...
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FELL BEFORE DAVID. — This act of obeisance, and, in fact, the whole
tone of the wise wife of Nabal in her address to David, seems to
betoken her consciousness that she was addressing the anointed of
J...
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וַ תֵּ֤רֶא אֲבִיגַ֨יִל֙ אֶת ־דָּוִ֔ד
וַ תְּמַ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CHAPTER XXV....
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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AND WHEN ABIGAIL SAW DAVID,.... Whom she either knew personally, or
rather supposed who he was by the number of men that followed him:
SHE HASTED, AND ALIGHTED OFF THE ASS; on which she rode:
AND FE...
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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...
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And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and
fell before David on her face, in an attitude of supplication and
subjection, AND BOWED HERSELF TO THE GROUND,...
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Abigail's Tact and Prudence...
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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...
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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...
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Not only in token of deep reverence, but as a most humble supplicant,
as 2 KINGS 4:27....
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1 Samuel 25:23 Abigail H26 saw H7200 (H8799) David H1732 hastened
H4116 (H8762) dismount H3381 (H8799) donkey...
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ABIGAIL AVERTS DISASTER (1 SAMUEL 25:20).
Abigail rides to meet David, takes all the guilt on herself, and begs
him to show mercy, not only for her sake but for his own, so that he
will not be guilty...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 25:23 ABIGAIL warns David not to shed
innocent blood. It would not be good for the future king to have
killed fellow Israelites. He must let God remove his enemies, not take...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 20:41; 1 Samuel 24:8; Joshua 15:18; Judges 1:14...