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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

1 Samuel 25:10

Who is David? what relation or obligation have I to David? There be many servants now a days that break away; hereby he taxeth both David, as one revolted from and risen up against Saul his lord and master; and his soldiers as runagates from their masters and creditors, &c. See 1 Samuel 22:2.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 1 Samuel 25:10. _WHO IS DAVID?_] Nabal's answer shows the _surliness_ of his disposition. It was unjust to refuse so reasonable a request; and the _manner_ of the refusal was highly insulting....

  • 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

    _Who is David_, &c. Cp. Judges 9:38....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Nabal's churlish behaviour to David 2. _a man in Maon_ Nabal's home was in the city of Maon, and his possessions (or, HIS BUSINESS) about a mile to the north at Carmel. These places are mentioned tog...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NABAL ANSWERED DAVID'S SERVANTS— Nabal's answer was agreeable to his character, rude and sullen, a strong image of ungoverned brutality, and very natural to that insolence which wealth is too apt to i...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Nabal's Shameful Treatment of David._ 1 Samuel 25:2-13 2 And _there was_ a man in Maon, whose possessions _were_ in Carmel; and the man _was_ very great, and he had three thousand sheep; and a thous...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND NABAL ANSWERED DAVID'S SERVANTS, AND SAID, WHO IS DAVID? AND WHO IS THE SON OF JESSE? THERE BE MANY SERVANTS NOW A DAYS THAT BREAK AWAY EVERY MAN FROM HIS MASTER._ Who is David? ... Nabal's answ...

  • 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

    THERE BE MANY SERVANTS NOW A DAYS THAT BREAK AWAY. — This evident insult indicates that Nabal was of the faction of Saul at this time — was reckoned among those who hated David. It was the report of t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֨עַן נָבָ֜ל אֶת ־עַבְדֵ֤י דָוִד֙ וַ

  • 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

    A RICH MAN'S CHURLISHNESS 1 Samuel 25:2 This Carmel was a city in the mountains of Judah, ten miles south of Hebron. See Joshua 15:55. Though a descendant of Caleb, Nabal had none of that hero's spir...

  • 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

    And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who [is] David? and who [is] the (e) son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master. (e) Thus the covetous wr...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Masters. As if he had said, you and David are but fugitive slaves. (Calmet) --- He might also insinuate, that David encouraged such practices, chap. xxii. 2. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (9) And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. (10) And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the...

  • 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 NABAL ANSWERED DAVID'S SERVANTS, AND SAID,.... In a very haughty manner, in great wrath, just as churlish covetous persons do, when they do not care to give what is asked of them: WHO [IS] DAVID?...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who [is] David? and who [is] the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master. Ver. 10. _Who is David?_] _q...

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

    _Who is David? There be many servants_, &c. He reproaches them all as a company of fugitives and vagabonds; and, in effect, taxes David with infidelity to his master Saul; a most rude and brutish answ...

  • 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 Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? What was David and his concerns to him? Why should he bother about his troubles? THERE BE MANY SERVANTS NOWADAY...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Nabal's Foolishness...

  • 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

    2-11 We should not have heard of Nabal, if nothing had passed between him and David. Observe his name, Nabal, "A fool;" so it signifies. Riches make men look great in the eye of the world; but to one...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Samuel 25:10 Nabal H5037 answered H6030 (H8799) Davids H1732 servants H5650 said H559 (H8799) David H1732 son...

  • 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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    NABAL'S FOOLISH REPLY. Given the strength of David's band Nabal's reply was foolish in the extreme. Indeed we can only assume that he was not aware of how powerful David's fighting strength was, for i...

  • 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

    _And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep._ NABAL, THE CHURL David never made a wiser choice, and he never said a truer thing, than when he exclaimed, “Let me fall now into th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 25:10 Nabal refuses David’s polite request (which might have been justifiable), and he treats David’s men with contempt. Like Saul and Doeg (1 Samuel 20:27,...

  • 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 Kings 12:16; 1 Samuel 20:30; 1 Samuel 22:2; 1 Samuel 22:7; 1 Sam

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