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1 Samuel 25:19

Nabal
Wisdom

17 Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”

18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys

and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

20 As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.

21 Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
KJV
And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
WEB
She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal.
ASV
And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
DARBY
And she said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
BLB
And she said to her servants, “Go on before me. Behold, after you⁺ I am coming.” And her husband Nabal she did not tell.
ÅB
Og hun sa til sine folk: Dra i forveien for meg! Jeg kommer snart etter. Men til sin mann Nabal sa hun ikke noe om dette.
OTB
Hun sa til sine unge menn, "Gå foran meg; se, jeg kommer etter dere." Men hun fortalte ikke sin mann Nabal.
B1930
Og hun sa til sine folk: Dra i forveien for mig! Jeg kommer snart efter. Men til sin mann Nabal sa hun ikke noget om dette.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Genesis 32:20

    You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”

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  • Genesis 32:16

    He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”

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  • Proverbs 31:11–12

    The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he lacks nothing of value.

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  • Proverbs 31:27

    She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

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