1 Samuel 25:22
May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living.
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23And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him.
Cross References
Ruth 1:17Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.
1 Samuel 14:44And Saul said, May God's punishment be on me if death is not your fate, Jonathan.
1 Samuel 20:16And if it comes about that the name of Jonathan is cut off from the family of David, the Lord will make David responsible.
1 Kings 16:11And straight away when he became king and took his place on the seat of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha: not one male child of his relations or his friends kept his life.
2 Kings 9:8For the family of Ahab will come to an end; every male of Ahab's family will be cut off, he who is shut up and he who goes free in Israel.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 25:19-32
Abigail Meets David. ( b. c. 1057.) 18 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 a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. 19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. 20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down… Read the whole commentary →