1 Samuel 25:1

Death of Samuel

1 Then ^aSamuel died; and the Israelites gathered together and ^blamented for him, and buried him at his home in Ramah. And David arose and went down ^cto the Wilderness of Paran.

David and the Wife of Nabal

2 Now there was a man ^ain Maon whose business was in ^bCarmel, and the man was very rich. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

3 The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. And she was a woman of good understanding and beautiful appearance; but the man was harsh and evil in his doings. He was of the house of ^aCaleb.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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1 Samuel 25:1

In his house at Ramah - Probably in the court or garden attached to his dwelling-house. (Compare II Chronicles 33:20; II Kings 21:18; John 19:41.)

The wilderness of Paran - The Septuagint has the far more probable reading "Maon." The wilderness of Paran lay far off to the south, on the borders of the wilderness of Sinai Numbers 10:12; I Kings 11:18, whereas the following verse I Samuel 25:2 shows that the scene is laid in the immediate neighborhood of Maon. If, however, Paran be the true reading, we must suppose that in a wide sense the wilderness of Paran extended all the way to the wilderness of Beersheba, and eastward to the mountains of Judah (marginal references).

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