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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

1 Samuel 25:26

The passage should be rendered as follows: “And now my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth,” it is “the Lord” that “hath withholden thee from coming” into blood-guiltiness (as in 1 Samuel 25:33), “and from saving thyself with thine own hand;” and “now” all “thine enemies” shall be as Nabal (whom she considers as utterly impotent to hurt David, and as already thoroughly humbled before him), and (so shall be) all “that seek evil to my Lord.”

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 -...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. COMING TO SHED BLOOD. wading in blood (as we say). Compare 1 Samuel 25:26. AVENGING. saving....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Now therefore_, &c. Render, AND NOW, MY LORD, AS JEHOVAH LIVETH, AND BY THE LIFE OF THY SOUL, SURELY JEHOVAH HATH WITHHOLDEN THEE FROM COMING INTO BLOOD-GUILTINESS, AND SAVING THYSELF WITH THINE OWN...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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;...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 ENEMIE...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    25:26 avenging (c-24) Lit. 'saving' or 'delivering,' also in vers. 31,33....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SEEING THE LORD HATH WITHHOLDEN. — This passage, as the _Speaker’s Commentary_ rightly observes, “since the oath affirmed nothing, should be rendered, ‘And now my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עַתָּ֣ה אֲדֹנִ֗י חַי ־יְהוָ֤ה וְ חֵֽי

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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 (i) hand, now let thi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _To thee. She felicitates David on not having put his design in execution. (Calmet) --- Theodoret thinks he might lawfully have done it; but others believe that the fault bore no proportion with the i...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW THEREFORE, MY LORD, [AS] THE LORD LIVETH, AND [AS] THY SOUL LIVETH,.... Which is an oath, and respects either what goes before, that she never saw the young men that were sent to Nabal, or to what...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 e...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    1 Sam. 25:26. The sense is, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord Himself hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, God Himse...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood_ Nothing could possibly be spoken to David with more effect, to turn away his wrath, than thus to insinuate such an opinion of his goodn...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Abigail's Tact and Prudence...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Now, therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, literally, "into blood-guiltiness," AND FROM AVENGING THYSELF WITH...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AVENGING THY SELF: _ Heb._ saving thyself...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEEING THE LORD HATH WITHHOLDEN THEE FROM COMING TO SHED BLOOD; seeing God hath so ordered this business by his wise and wonderful providence, that I should accidentally and unexpectedly come to the k...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 25:26 lord H113 LORD H3068 lives H2416 soul H5315 lives H2416 LORD H3068 back H4513 (H8804) coming...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ABIGAIL'S PLEA. 1 Samuel 25:25 “ Let not my lord, I pray you, regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your handmaid d...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 1:26; 1 Samuel 22:3; 1 Samuel 25:33; 1 Samuel 25:34; 2 Kings

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    As Nabal — Let them be as contemptible as Nabal is, and will be for this odious action; let them be as unable to do thee any hurt as he is; let them be forced to yield to thee, and implore thy pardon,...

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