1 Samuel 25:39
and David hears that Nabal [is] dead and says, “Blessed [is] YHWH who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant has kept back from evil, and YHWH has turned back the wickedness of Nabal on his own head”; and David sends and speaks with Abigail, to take her to himself for a wife.
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38And it comes to pass [in] about ten days, that YHWH strikes Nabal and he dies,
Cross References
Judges 5:2“For freeing leaders in Israel, || For a people willingly offering themselves, || Bless YHWH.
1 Samuel 25:26and now, my lord, YHWH lives, and your soul lives, in that YHWH has withheld you from coming in with blood, and to save your hand from yourself—now let your enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil toward my lord.
1 Samuel 25:34And yet, YHWH lives, God of Israel, who has kept me back from doing evil with you, for unless you had hurried, and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal until the morning light, of those sitting on the wall.”
2 Samuel 1:16and David says to him, “Your blood [is] on your own head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I put to death the anointed of YHWH.”
2 Samuel 22:47YHWH lives, and blessed [is] my Rock, || And exalted is my God—The Rock of my salvation.
Esther 7:10And they hang Haman on the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king has lain down.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 25:37-44
David Marries Abigail. ( b. c. 1057.) 36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. 37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal,… Read the whole commentary →