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Verse 1 Samuel 25:18. _TOOK TWO HUNDRED LOAVES_] The Eastern bread is
ordinarily both _thin_ and _small_; and answers to our _cakes_.
_TWO BOTTLES OF WINE_] That is, two goat-skins full. The hide is...
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TWO BOTTLES - Rather, “two skins,” each of which would contain
many gallons. These leather vessels varied in size according to the
skin they were made of, and the use they were to be put to. The
small...
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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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AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), emphasising
Abigail's thought and care, as well as rapidity. measures. See App-51....
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Abigail's wise counsel
14. _to salute_ Lit. _to bless_, as in ch. 1 Samuel 13:10. Cp. 2 Kings
4:29, and the form of salutation in 1 Samuel 15:13.
_he railed on them_ Lit. FLEW UPON THEM; the sa
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_Abigail made haste, and took_ A store of provisions was prepared for
the shearing feast (1 Samuel 25:11). For the different items of the
present compare 2 Samuel 16:1; 1 Chronicles 12:40.
two bottles...
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_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...
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_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 HUNDRED CAK...
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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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FIVE MEASURES. — The LXX. alter the measure into five ephahs,
thinking the quantity in the text ridiculously small for such an host
as followed David. Ewald too, would change 5 into 500; but the truth...
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וַ תְּמַהֵ֣ר _אֲבִיגַ֡יִל_† וַ
תִּקַּח֩ מָאתַ֨יִם לֶ֜חֶם
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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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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...
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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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Raisins. Hebrew tsimmukim, "dried raisins," or clusters of an
extraordinary size. Roger speaks of some gathered in the vale of
Sorec, which weighed 25\'bd pounds. (the year of the Lord 1634.)
Septuagi...
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(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...
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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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THEN ABIGAIL MADE HASTE,.... As the case required, her family being in
imminent danger:
AND TOOK TWO HUNDRED LOAVES; of bread; of what size or weight they
were is not said; though it may be reasonabl...
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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 hundred ca...
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_Then Abigail took two hundred loaves_, &c. This shows he was a great
man, who had plenty of provisions in his house. Abigail did this of
her own accord, without her husband's leave, because it was a...
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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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Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles
of wine, the skins used for this purpose in the Orient, AND FIVE SHEEP
READY DRESSED, AND FIVE MEASURES OF PARCHED CORN, more than...
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Abigail's Tact and Prudence...
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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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CLUSTERS:
Or, lumps...
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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...
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ABIGAIL TOOK TWO HUNDRED LOAVES; which she did without his leave, and
against his mind, because it was a case of apparent necessity, for the
preservation of herself, and husband, and all the family fr...
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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...
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DAVID'S REACTION.
Humanly speaking David's reaction was inevitable. What Nabal had said
was deliberately insulting, contrary to custom and an act of open
hostility. It was a refusal to accept the norm...
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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 Samuel 25:34; 2 Samuel 16:1; 2 Samuel 17:28; 2 Samuel 17:29;...
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Abigail took, &c. — This she did without his leave, because it was a
case of apparent necessity, for the preservation of herself, and
husband, and all the family from imminent ruin. And surely, that
n...