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1 Samuél dyeth. 3 Nabál and Abigáil 38 The Lord killeth Nabál 42 Abigáil and Ahinóam Davids wives. 44 Michal is given to Phaltí.

1.Then *Samuél dyed, & all Israél assembled, & mourned for him, and buryed him in his ^aowne house at Ramáh. And David arose and went downe to the wildernes of Parán.

2.Now in ^bMaón was a man, who had his possession in Carmél, and the man was exceding mighty and had thre thousand shepe, and a thousand goates: and he was shering his shepe in Carmél.

3.The name also of the man was Nabál, and the name of his wife Abigáil, and she was a woman of singular wisdome, and beautiful, but the man was churlish, and evil conditioned, and was of the familie of Caléb.

4.And David heard in the wildernes, that Nabál did shere his shepe.

5.Therefore David sent ten yong men, and David said unto the yong men, Go up to Carmél, and go to Nabál, and aske him in my name ^how he doeth.

6.And thus shal ye say ^c^for salutation, Both thou, and thine house, & all that thou hast, be in peace, welth, & prosperitie.

7.Beholde, I have heard, that thou hast sherers: now thy shepherds were with us, and we did them no hurt, nether did they misse anie thing all the while they were in Carmél.

8.Aske thy servants and they wil shewe thee. Wherefore let these yong men finde favour in thine eyes: (for we come in a good season) give, I praye thee, whatsoever ^dcommeth to thine hand unto they servants, and to thy sonne David.

9.¶ And when Davids yong men came, they tolde Nabál all those wordes in the name of David, and helde their peace.

10.Then Nabál answered Davids servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the ^esonne of Jshái? there is manie servants now a dayes, that brake awaye every man from his master.

11.Shal I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my sherers, & give it unto men, whome I knowe not whence thei be?

12.¶ So Davids servants turned their way, and went againe, and came, and tolde him all those things.

13.And David said unto his men, Girde every man his sworde about him. And they girded every man his sworde: David also girded his sworde. And about foure hundreth men went up after David, & two hundreth abode by the ^cariage.

14.Now one of the servants tolde Abigáil Nabals wife, saying, Beholde, David sent messengers out of the wildernes to salute our master, and he ^rayled on them.

15.Notwithstanding the men were very good ^funto us, & we had no displeasure, nether missed we any thing as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields.

16.Thei were as a wall unto us bothe by night and by day, all the while we were with them keping shepe.

17.Now therefore take hede, and se what thou shalt do: for evil ^wil surely come upon our master, & upon all his familie: for he is so wicked that a man can not speake to him.

18.¶ Then Abigáil made haste, & toke two hundreth ^cakes, and two bottles of wine, and five shepe ready dressed, and five measures of parched corne, and an hundreth ^frailes of raisins, & two hundreth of figges, and laded them on asses.

19.Then she said unto her servants, Go ye before me: beholde, I wil come after you: yet she tolde ^gnot her housband Nabál.

20.And as she rode on her asse, she came downe by a secret place of the mountaine, and beholde, David and his men came downe against her, and she met them.

21.And David said, In dede I have kept all in vaine that this fellowe had in the wildernes, so that nothing was missed of all that perteined unto him: for he hathe requited me evil for good.

22.So and more also do God unto the enemies of David: for surely I wil not leave of all that he hathe, by the dawning of the day, any that ^hpisseth against the wall.

23.And when Abigáil sawe David, she hasted and lighted of her asse, & fel before David on her face, and bowed herselfe to the ground,

24.And fel at his fete, & said, Oh, my lord, I have committed the iniquitie, and I pray thee, let thine handmaid speake ^to thee, and heare thou the wordes of thine handmayd.

25.Let not my lord, I pray thee, regarde this wicked man Nabál: for as his name is, so is he: ^Nabál is his name, and foly is with him: but I thine handmayd sawe not the yong men of my lord whome thou sentest.

26.Now therefore my lord, as the Lord liveth, & as thy soule liveth (the Lord, I say, that hathe withholden thee from comming to shed blood, & that ⁱthine hand shulde not save thee) so now thine enemies shalbe as Nabál, and thei that intende to do my lord evil.

27.And now, this ^blessing which thine handmayd hathe broght unto my lord, let it be given unto the yong men, that ^followe my lord.

28.I pray thee, forgive the trespasse of thine handmayd: for the Lord wil make my lord a ^ksure house, because my lord fighteth the battels of the lord and none evil hathe bene founde in thee ^in all thy life.

29.Yet ^la man hathe risen up to persecute thee, and to seke thy soule, but the soule of my lord shalbe bounde in the ^mbundel of life with the Lord thy God: and the soule of thine enemies shal God cast out, as out of the midle of a sling.

30.And when the Lord shal have done to my lord all the good that he hathe promised thee, and shal have made thee ruler over Israél,

31.Then shal it be no grief unto thee, nor offence of mind unto my lord, that he hathe not shed blood causeles, nor that my lord hathe ⁿnot preserved him selfe: and when the Lord shal have dealt wel with my lord, remember thine handmayd.

32.Then David said to Abigáil, Blessed be the Lord God of Israél, which sent thee this day to mete me.

33.And blessed be thy counsel, and blessed be thou, which haste kept me this day from comming to shed blood, ^oand that mine hand hathe not saved me.

34.For in dede, as the Lord God of Israél liveth, ^pwho hathe kept me backe from hurting thee, except thou haddest hasted & met me, surely there had not bene left unto Nabál by the dawning of the day, any that pisseth against the wall.

35.Then David received of her hand that which she had broght him, & said to her, Go up in peace to thine house: beholde, I have heard thy voyce, & have ^granted thy peticion.

36.¶ So Abigáil came to Nabál, & beholde, he made a feast in his house, like the feast of a King, & Nabals heart was mery within him, for he was very dronken: wherefore she tolde him ^qnothing, nether lesse nor more, until the morning arose.

37.Then in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabál, his wife tolde him those wordes, and his heart dyed within him, and he was like ^ra stone.

38.And about ten daies after, the Lord smote Nabál, that he dyed.

39.¶ Now when David heard, that Nabál was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord that hathe ^judged the cause of my rebuke of the hand of Nabál, and hathe kept his servant from evil: for the Lord hathe recompensed the wickednes of Nabál upon his owne head. Also David sent to commune with Abigáil to ^stake her to his wife. Abigáil

40.And when the servants of David were come to Abigáil to Carmél, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us to thee, to take thee to his wife.

41.And she arose, and bowed her self on her face to the earth, and said, Beholde, let thy handmayd be a servant to wash the fete of the servants of my lord.

42.And Abigáil hasted, and arose, and rode upon an asse, and her five maids ^followed her, and she went after the messengers of David, and was his wife.

43.David also toke Ahinóam of *Jzreél, and thei were bothe his wives.

44.Now Saúl had given *Michál his daughter Davids wife to Phaltí the sonne of Láish, which was of ^tGallím.

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