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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 ...
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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 -...
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WASH THE FEET, &c. This was and is the most menial service....
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_and bowed herself_, &c. With the obsequiousness characteristic of
Oriental nations, she expresses her devotion both by gesture and word.
"Washing the feet" like "loosing the shoe-latchet" (Mark 1:7)...
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David's marriage with Abigail
39. _pleaded the cause_, &c. Exacted from Nabal a due penalty for the
injury he did me. Cp. 1 Samuel 24:15. In those days godly men looked
for visible judgments upon the...
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_David's Wives._ 1 Samuel 25:39-44
39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed _be_ the
Lord that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of
Nabal, and hath kept his ser...
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_AND WHEN THE SERVANTS OF DAVID WERE COME TO ABIGAIL TO CARMEL, THEY
SPAKE UNTO HER, SAYING, DAVID SENT US UNTO THEE, TO TAKE THEE TO HIM
TO WIFE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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....
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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...
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וַ תָּ֕קָם וַ תִּשְׁתַּ֥חוּ אַפַּ֖יִם
אָ֑רְצָה...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Thy servant. She speaks to David's representatives, as if he had been
present. (Haydock) --- The marriage was proposed probably a month or
two after the death of Nabal; and Abigail followed the messe...
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(40) And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel,
they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to
him to wife. (41) And she arose, and bowed herself on her face...
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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...
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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...
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AND SHE AROSE, AND BOWED HERSELF ON [HER] FACE TO THE EARTH,.... As
she did before David, 1 Samuel 25:23; and did as she would have done
had he been present, considering his messengers as representing...
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And she arose, and bowed herself on [her] face to the earth, and said,
Behold, [let] thine handmaid [be] a servant to wash the feet of the
servants of my lord.
Ver. 41. _Behold, let thine handmaid be...
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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...
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DAVID MARRIES ABIGAIL...
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And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, in the
Oriental manner of deepest devotion, AND SAID, with the same extreme
formal humility, BEHOLD, LET THINE HANDMAID BE A SERVANT TO WASH...
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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...
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39-44 Abigail believed that David would be king over Israel, and
greatly esteemed his pious and excellent character. She deemed his
proposal of marriage honourable, and advantageous to her,
notwithsta...
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She showed this reverence, and spake thus to them, as representing
David's person....
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1 Samuel 25:41 arose H6965 (H8799) bowed H7812 (H8691) face H639 earth
H776 said H559 (H8799) maidservant...
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DAVID, HAVING LOST HIS WIFE THROUGH SAUL'S CONNIVING, RECEIVES TWO
WIVES IN HER PLACE (25:39C-44).
Once David had fled from Saul he became an outlaw. Thus Saul
considered that his marriage to Michal...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Timothy 5:10; Genesis 18:4; John 13:3; Proverbs 15:33; Proverbs 1