21 Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him. And he has arepaid me evil for good.
22 aMay God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I bleave cone male of all who belong to him by morning light.”
23 Now when Abigail saw David, she adismounted quickly from the donkey, fell on her face before David, and bowed down to the ground.
24 So she fell at his feet and said: “On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be! And please let your maidservant1 speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant.
25 Please, let not my lord regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is, so is he:2 Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.
26 Now therefore, my lord, aas the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has bheld you back from coming to bloodshed and from cavenging yourself with your own hand, now then, dlet your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal.
27 And now athis present which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
28 Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant. For athe Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord bfights the battles of the Lord, cand evil is not found in you throughout your days.
29 Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, but the life of my lord shall be abound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; and the lives of your enemies He shall bsling out, as from the pocket of a sling.
30 And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has done for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you aruler over Israel,
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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No entry exists in Barnes' Notes for 1 Samuel 25:23.
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