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The passage should be rendered as follows: “And now my lord, as the
Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth,” it is “the Lord” that
“hath withholden thee from coming” into blood-guiltiness (as in 1
Samuel...
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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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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.
COMING TO SHED BLOOD. wading in blood (as we say). Compare 1 Samuel
25:26.
AVENGING. saving....
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_Now therefore_, &c. Render, AND NOW, MY LORD, AS JEHOVAH LIVETH, AND
BY THE LIFE OF THY SOUL, SURELY JEHOVAH HATH WITHHOLDEN THEE FROM
COMING INTO BLOOD-GUILTINESS, AND SAVING THYSELF WITH THINE OWN...
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Abigail's meeting with David
23. _lighted off the ass_ i.e. got down from, an old form of
_alighted_. The Heb. word is different from that similarly translated
in Joshua 15:18, and simply means "to d...
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WHEN ABIGAIL SAW DAVID, &C.— Abigail was a woman of distinguished
merit. She had the advantage of a beautiful person, set off by an
excellent understanding, a graceful address, and uncommon prudence;...
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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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_NOW THEREFORE, MY LORD, AS THE LORD LIVETH, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH,
SEEING THE LORD HATH WITHHOLDEN THEE FROM COMING TO SHED BLOOD, AND
FROM AVENGING THYSELF WITH THINE OWN HAND, NOW LET THINE ENEMIE...
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25:26 avenging (c-24) Lit. 'saving' or 'delivering,' also in vers.
31,33....
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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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SEEING THE LORD HATH WITHHOLDEN. — This passage, as the _Speaker’s
Commentary_ rightly observes, “since the oath affirmed nothing,
should be rendered, ‘And now my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy...
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וְ עַתָּ֣ה אֲדֹנִ֗י חַי ־יְהוָ֤ה וְ
חֵֽי
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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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Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul
liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to [shed]
blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own (i) hand, now let
thi...
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_To thee. She felicitates David on not having put his design in
execution. (Calmet) --- Theodoret thinks he might lawfully have done
it; but others believe that the fault bore no proportion with the
i...
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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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NOW THEREFORE, MY LORD, [AS] THE LORD LIVETH, AND [AS] THY SOUL
LIVETH,.... Which is an oath, and respects either what goes before,
that she never saw the young men that were sent to Nabal, or to what...
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Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul
liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to [shed]
blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine
e...
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1 Sam. 25:26. The sense is, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, seeing the Lord Himself hath withholden thee from coming to
shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, God Himse...
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_Seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood_
Nothing could possibly be spoken to David with more effect, to turn
away his wrath, than thus to insinuate such an opinion of his goodn...
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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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Now, therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth,
seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood,
literally, "into blood-guiltiness," AND FROM AVENGING THYSELF WITH...
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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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AVENGING THY SELF:
_ Heb._ saving thyself...
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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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SEEING THE LORD HATH WITHHOLDEN THEE FROM COMING TO SHED BLOOD; seeing
God hath so ordered this business by his wise and wonderful
providence, that I should accidentally and unexpectedly come to the
k...
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ABIGAIL'S PLEA.
1 Samuel 25:25
“ Let not my lord, I pray you, regard this worthless fellow, even
Nabal, for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is
with him. But I your handmaid d...
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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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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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1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 25:23 ABIGAIL warns David not to shed
innocent blood. It would not be good for the future king to have
killed fellow Israelites. He must let God remove his enemies, not take...
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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 1:26; 1 Samuel 22:3; 1 Samuel 25:33; 1 Samuel 25:34; 2 Kings
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As Nabal — Let them be as contemptible as Nabal is, and will be for
this odious action; let them be as unable to do thee any hurt as he
is; let them be forced to yield to thee, and implore thy pardon,...