Please give your servants and your son David whatever ( AZ) you can find for them.’”ĩ When David’s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David’s name. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time.
8 Ask your own servants and they will tell you. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat ( AY) them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing.
6 Say to him: ‘Long life to you! Good health ( AW) to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours! ( AX)ħ “‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. 5 So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name. ( AV)Ĥ While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep. ( AU) She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings-he was a Calebite. 3 His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail. ( AS) He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing ( AT) in Carmel. Ģ A certain man in Maon, ( AR) who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. ( AQ) Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran. ( AN) David, Nabal and AbigailĢ5 Now Samuel died, ( AO) and all Israel assembled and mourned ( AP) for him and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then Saul returned home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. 21 Now swear ( AL) to me by the Lord that you will not kill off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s family. 20 I know that you will surely be king ( AJ) and that the kingdom ( AK) of Israel will be established in your hands. 19 When a man finds his enemy, does he let him get away unharmed? May the Lord reward ( AI) you well for the way you treated me today. ( AG) 18 You have just now told me about the good you did to me the Lord delivered ( AH) me into your hands, but you did not kill me. “You have treated me well, ( AF) but I have treated you badly. 17 “You are more righteous than I,” ( AE) he said. May he consider my cause and uphold ( AA) it may he vindicate ( AB) me by delivering ( AC) me from your hand.”ġ6 When David finished saying this, Saul asked, “Is that your voice, ( AD) David my son?” And he wept aloud. 13 As the old saying goes, ‘From evildoers come evil deeds, ( V)’ so my hand will not touch you.ġ4 “Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Who are you pursuing? A dead dog? ( W) A flea? ( X) 15 May the Lord be our judge ( Y) and decide ( Z) between us. And may the Lord avenge ( U) the wrongs you have done to me, but my hand will not touch you. ( S) 12 May the Lord judge ( T) between you and me. I have not wronged ( Q) you, but you are hunting ( R) me down to take my life. See that there is nothing in my hand to indicate that I am guilty ( O) of wrongdoing ( P) or rebellion. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared ( M) you I said, ‘I will not lay my hand on my lord, because he is the Lord’s anointed.’ 11 See, my father, look at this piece of your robe in my hand! I cut ( N) off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. ( J) 9 He said to Saul, “Why do you listen ( K) when men say, ‘David is bent on harming ( L) you’? 10 This day you have seen with your own eyes how the Lord delivered you into my hands in the cave. And Saul left the cave and went his way.Ĩ Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. 6 He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, ( I) or lay my hand on him for he is the anointed of the Lord.” 7 With these words David sharply rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. 4 The men said, “This is the day the Lord spoke ( E) of when he said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.’” ( F) Then David crept up unnoticed and cut ( G) off a corner of Saul’s robe.ĥ Afterward, David was conscience-stricken ( H) for having cut off a corner of his robe. David and his men were far back in the cave. ( A)” 2 So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look ( B) for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats.ģ He came to the sheep pens along the way a cave ( C) was there, and Saul went in to relieve ( D) himself.
24 After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.
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