1 Samuel 25:41
And she arose, and bowed herself down with her face to the earth,—and said—Lo! thy handmaid, as serving-woman to bathe the feet of the servants of my lord.
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Ruth 2:10Then she fell upon her face, and bowed herself to the ground,—and said unto him—Wherefore have I found favour in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take notice of me, seeing that, I, am, a stranger?
1 Samuel 25:23And, when Abigail saw David, she hastened, and alighted from off her ass,—and fell down before David upon her face, and prostrated herself on the ground;
Proverbs 18:12Before grievous injury, a man’s heart is haughty, and, before honour, is humility.
1 Timothy 5:10In noble works, being well-attested;—if she hath nourished children, if she hath shewn hospitality, if, saints feet, she hath washed, if, them who were in tribulation, she hath succoured, if, in every good, work she hath followed on:
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 →