For the Lord will make ... a sure house - Compare 1 Samuel 2:35, and 2 Samuel 7:16; 1 Kings 11:38. Abigail’s firm persuasion of David’s kingdom stands upon the same footing as Rahab’s conviction of God’s gift of Canaan to the Israelites Joshua 2:9. Both testified to God’s revelation and their own faith. This is doubtless the reason why Abigail’s speech is recorded.
Verse 1 Samuel 25:28. _AND EVIL HATH NOT BEEN FOUND IN THEE_] Thou hast not committed any act of this kind hitherto....
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 -...
TRESPASS. Hebrew. _pasha`._ App-44....
_the trespass of thine handmaid_ She takes the blame of the wrong done to David upon herself, as in _v._24. _for theLord_, &c. Abigail grounds her request on the conviction that David will succeed to...
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...
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;...
_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...
_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....
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....
FIGHTETH THE BATTLES OF THE LORD] David had rescued the inhabitants of Keilah from the Philistines (1 Samuel 23:5), and protected the dwellers in the S. of Judah from the desert nomads (1 Samuel 25:16...
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...
THE TRESPASS OF THINE HANDMAID. — Abigail again takes upon herself the wrong; the gracious act of forgiveness, of which she feels assured beforehand, she reminds David, will be shown _to her._ Thus al...
שָׂ֥א נָ֖א לְ פֶ֣שַׁע אֲמָתֶ֑ךָ כִּ֣י עָשֹֽׂה
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...
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a (k) sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee ...
_House. Thy family shall long continue in the enjoyment of the royal power. Chaldean, "an established kingdom." (Haydock) --- Lord, as his general. --- Evil. Do no manner of injustice. Hebrew, "and ev...
(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...
I PRAY THEE, FORGIVE THE TRESPASS OF THINE HANDMAID,.... The trespasses, as the Targum, either the sin of her husband, she had taken upon herself, or her boldness in troubling him with her petitions a...
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee [all]...
_Forgive the trespass of thy handmaid_ That is, the trespass which I have taken upon myself, and which, if it be punished, the punishment will reach to me. _Sure house_ Will give the kingdom to thee,...
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...
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid, the guilt which she had taken upon herself by her own confession; FOR THE LORD WILL CERTAINLY MAKE MY LORD A SURE HOUSE, as a reward of his magnani...
Abigail's Tact and Prudence...
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...
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...
THE TRESPASS OF THINE HANDMAID, i.e. which I have taken upon myself, 1 SAMUEL 25:21, and which, if it be not pardoned, but punished, the punishment will reach to me. WILL CERTAINLY MAKE MY LORD A SURE...
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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...
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...
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...
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 Chronicles 17:10; 1 Chronicles 17:25; 1 Kings 15:5; 1 Kings 9:5;...
The trespass — That is, which I have taken upon myself, and which, if it be punished, the punishment will reach to me. Sure house — Will give the kingdom to thee, and to thy house for ever, as he hath...