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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....
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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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_Who is David_, &c. Cp. Judges 9:38....
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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וַ יַּ֨עַן נָבָ֜ל אֶת ־עַבְדֵ֤י
דָוִד֙ וַ
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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 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...
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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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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...
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_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)_...
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(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...
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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 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?...
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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...
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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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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...
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Nabal's Foolishness...
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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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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...
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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 m...
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1 Samuel 25:10 Nabal H5037 answered H6030 (H8799) Davids H1732
servants H5650 said H559 (H8799) David H1732 son...
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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...
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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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_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...
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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,...
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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 Kings 12:16; 1 Samuel 20:30; 1 Samuel 22:2; 1 Samuel 22:7; 1 Sam