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See also 1 Samuel 25:32 in other biblical comments:

  • 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 -...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    David's favourable answer 32. _Blessed be the Lord_ David rightly recognises that the intervention of Providence has saved him from a foolish and wicked revenge. Compare his prayer in Psalms 19:13. T...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 306 DAVID KEPT FROM AVENGING HIMSELF ON NABAL 1 Samuel 25:32._ And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: and blessed be thy advice,...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    DAVID SAID TO ABIGAIL, BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD— The finest spirits are soonest kindled into a flame; and to see them quickly cooled and calmed again upon the first shew of submission, by the first gle...

  • 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

    _AND DAVID SAID TO ABIGAIL, BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHICH SENT THEE THIS DAY TO MEET ME:_ David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord. Transported by passions, and blinded by revenge, he wa...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר דָּוִ֖ד לַ אֲבִיגַ֑ל בָּר֤וּךְ יְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (32) В¶ And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: (33) And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming...

  • 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

    AND DAVID SAID TO ABIGAIL,.... Having heard her out, and being overcome with her rhetoric and powerful arguments: BLESSED [BE] THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHICH SENT THEE THIS DAY TO MEET ME; who put it...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: Ver. 32. _And David said to Abigail._] The wisdom from above is persuadable. Jam 3:17 It maketh a...

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

    _Blessed be the Lord_, &c. Who, by his gracious providence, so disposed matters that thou shouldst come to me. He rightly begins at the fountain of this deliverance; and then proceeds to the instrumen...

  • 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

    And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me, for David ever acknowledged himself to be under divine guidance;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Abigail's Tact and Prudence...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Which by his gracious and singular providence so disposed matters that thou shouldst, come to rule. He rightly begins at the fountain of this deliverance, which was God; and then proceeds to the instr...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 25:32 David H1732 said H559 (H8799) Abigail H26 Blessed H1288 (H8803) LORD H3068 God H430 Israel...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID'S RESPONSE. In his response David acknowledged that she was in the right, and that she had kept him from unnecessary blood-guiltiness. It was one thing to have to slay men in warfare and in ord...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _Blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood._ PREVENTION OF SIN AN INVALUABLE MERCY These words are David’s retraction, or laying down of a revengeful resolution; which fo...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 25:32 For David to give up taking vengeance meant breaking the vow he made in v. 1 Samuel 25:22. If one vows to sin, however, it is better to break the vow than to co

  • 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

    2 Corinthians 8:16; Exodus 18:10; Ezra 7:27; Genesis 24:27; Luke 1:68;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Lord — Who by his gracious providence so disposed matters, that thou shouldst come to me: He rightly begins at the fountain of his deliverance; and then proceeds to the instruments....

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