Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
1 Samuel 25:36
behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
feast. banquet or drinking feast. Compare 2 Samuel 13:28.
behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
feast. banquet or drinking feast. Compare 2 Samuel 13:28.
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 -...
Nabal's death 36. _a feast … like the feast of a king_ His shearing-revel (cp. 2 Samuel 13:23) was on a scale of regal luxury....
_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 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 O...
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...
HE HELD A FEAST IN HIS HOUSE. — This completes the picture of the wealthy sheep-master. The contrast between him and his wife, the high-minded and wise Abigail, is very striking. The husband, churlish...
וַ תָּבֹ֣א אֲבִיגַ֣יִל ׀ אֶל ־נָבָ֡ל וְ הִנֵּ
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...
THE END OF SELFISH INDULGENCE 1 Samuel 25:32 The lowly obeisance of this beautiful woman at the young soldier's feet, her frank confession of the injustice done him, her thankfulness that he had bee...
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...
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 (q) nothing,...
_Morning. Admirable pattern of discretion, and how reprimands may be made with advantage. (Calmet) --- A medicine given at an improper time often does harm. (Pliny, [Natural History?] xvii. 27.) When...
(36) В¶ 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,...
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...
AND ABIGAIL CAME TO NABAL,.... Having sped with David, and taken her leave of him, she returned home to her husband Nabal: AND, BEHOLD, HE HELD A FEAST IN HIS HOUSE LIKE THE FEAST OF A KING; both for...
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, les...
_I have accepted thy person_ That is, showed my acceptance of thy person by my grant of thy request. _Behold, he held a feast_ As the manner was upon those solemn occasions. Sordid covetousness and va...
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...
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, although he had been too stingy to share with David and his men, HE HELD A FEAST IN HIS HOUSE, LIKE THE FEAST OF A KING, with all its luxury and sumptuousness;...
DAVID MARRIES ABIGAIL...
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...
32-39 David gives God thanks for sending him this happy check in a sinful way. Whoever meet us with counsel, direction, comfort, caution, or seasonable reproof, we must see God sending them. We ought...
LIKE THE FEAST OF A KING; as the manner was upon those solemn occasions. Sordid covetousness and vain prodigality were met together in him. SHE TOLD HIM NOTHING; he being then incapable of admonition,...
1 Samuel 25:36 Abigail H26 went H935 (H8799) Nabal H5037 feast H4960 house H1004 feast H4960 king H4428 Nabals...
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 Kings 20:16; 1 Samuel 25:19; 1 Thessalonians 5:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:8;...
A feast — As the manner was upon those solemn occasions. Sordid covetousness, and vain prodigality were met together in him. Told nothing — As he was then incapable of admonition, his reason and consc...