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I Samuel Chapter 25

I Samuel
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I Samuel

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In this chapter the people of Israel are warned of the consequences of idolatry and the importance of worshiping the true God. Samuel tells King Saul that the Lord has sent the Philistines to test his heart, and he must not be deceived by their offerings. The chapter emphasizes obedience and faithfulness to God over any human alliance.

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(1) And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
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I Samuel 28:3Genesis 50:11Numbers 20:29Deuteronomy 34:8Acts 8:2I Samuel 7:17I Kings 2:34II Chronicles 33:20Isaiah 14:18Genesis 14:6Genesis 21:21Numbers 10:12

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Numbers 27:3I Samuel 28:3I Samuel 9:26Genesis 35:29Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(2) And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
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I Samuel 23:24Genesis 26:13II Samuel 19:32Psalms 17:14Psalms 73:3Psalms 73:4Psalms 73:5Psalms 73:6Psalms 73:7Luke 16:19Luke 16:20Luke 16:21

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John 10:12Exodus 22:1Genesis 30:35II Chronicles 30:24Ezekiel 34:12John 10:3

(3) Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
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Proverbs 14:1Proverbs 31:26Proverbs 31:30Proverbs 31:31I Samuel 25:10I Samuel 25:11I Samuel 25:17Psalms 10:3Isaiah 32:5Isaiah 32:6Isaiah 32:7

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I Samuel 25:39

(4) And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
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Genesis 38:13II Samuel 13:23

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Exodus 22:1John 10:12I Samuel 25:39

(5) And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
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I Samuel 17:22Genesis 43:23

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Deuteronomy 22:6Numbers 8:8Judges 9:54Ruth 2:9I Samuel 25:8I Samuel 25:25

(6) And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.
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I Thessalonians 3:8I Timothy 5:6II Samuel 18:28I Chronicles 12:18Psalms 122:7Matthew 10:12Matthew 10:13Luke 10:5John 14:27II Thessalonians 3:16

(7) And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
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I Samuel 25:15I Samuel 25:16I Samuel 25:21I Samuel 22:2Isaiah 11:6Isaiah 11:7Isaiah 11:8Isaiah 11:9Luke 3:14Philippians 2:15Philippians 4:8

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Ezekiel 34:2

(8) Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
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Nehemiah 8:10Nehemiah 8:11Nehemiah 8:12Esther 9:19Ecclesiastes 11:2Luke 11:41Luke 14:12Luke 14:13Luke 14:14I Samuel 3:6I Samuel 24:11

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Philippians 4:8Deuteronomy 22:6Numbers 8:8Deuteronomy 28:50Judges 9:54Ruth 2:9

(9) And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
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Genesis 8:4II Kings 2:15II Chronicles 14:7

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Deuteronomy 22:6I Samuel 25:5I Samuel 25:25I Samuel 25:39

(10) And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
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I Samuel 20:30I Samuel 22:7I Samuel 22:8Exodus 5:2Judges 9:28II Samuel 20:1I Kings 12:16Psalms 73:7Psalms 73:8Psalms 123:3Psalms 123:4Isaiah 32:5

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Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23I Samuel 25:39

(11) Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
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I Samuel 25:3I Samuel 24:13Deuteronomy 8:17Judges 8:6Job 31:17Psalms 73:7Psalms 73:8I Peter 4:9Ecclesiastes 11:1Ecclesiastes 11:2Galatians 6:10I Samuel 25:14

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II Chronicles 29:22

(12) So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
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II Samuel 24:13Isaiah 36:21Isaiah 36:22Hebrews 13:17

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(13) And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
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Joshua 9:14Proverbs 14:29Proverbs 16:32Proverbs 19:2Proverbs 19:11Proverbs 25:8James 1:19James 1:20I Samuel 24:5I Samuel 24:6Romans 12:19Romans 12:20

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Ezekiel 48:16Leviticus 8:7Exodus 25:26Exodus 37:13Ezekiel 1:10Revelation 7:1

(14) But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.
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Mark 15:29

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Deuteronomy 22:6

(15) But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
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I Samuel 25:7I Samuel 25:21Philippians 2:15

(16) They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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Exodus 14:22Job 1:10Jeremiah 15:20Zechariah 2:5

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I Samuel 19:10Exodus 22:1John 10:12II Chronicles 26:6

(17) Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
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I Samuel 20:7I Samuel 20:9I Samuel 20:33II Chronicles 25:16Esther 7:7I Samuel 25:25I Samuel 2:12Deuteronomy 13:13Judges 19:22II Samuel 23:6II Samuel 23:7I Kings 21:10

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II Kings 8:12Exodus 15:26Matthew 10:25

(18) Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
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I Samuel 25:34Numbers 16:46Numbers 16:47Numbers 16:48Proverbs 6:4Proverbs 6:5Matthew 5:25Genesis 32:13Genesis 32:14Genesis 32:15Genesis 32:16Genesis 32:17

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Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Mark 2:22Matthew 9:17I Chronicles 12:40Job 1:3

(19) And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
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Genesis 32:16Genesis 32:20Proverbs 31:11Proverbs 31:12Proverbs 31:27

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(20) And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.
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II Kings 4:24

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Psalms 68:15Numbers 22:23I Kings 13:13I Kings 16:24

(21) Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
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I Samuel 25:13Job 30:8Psalms 37:8Ephesians 4:26Ephesians 4:31I Thessalonians 5:15I Peter 2:21I Peter 2:22I Peter 2:23I Peter 3:9Genesis 44:4Psalms 35:12

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(22) So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
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I Samuel 3:17I Samuel 14:44I Samuel 20:13I Samuel 20:16Ruth 1:17I Kings 14:10I Kings 16:11I Kings 21:21II Kings 9:8

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I Samuel 25:34Isaiah 30:26I Samuel 14:36I Samuel 29:10II Samuel 23:4Isaiah 60:19

(23) And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
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Joshua 15:18Judges 1:14I Samuel 20:41I Samuel 24:8

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Judges 5:27Ruth 2:10II Kings 4:37I Samuel 20:41II Samuel 14:22II Chronicles 20:18

(24) And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
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II Kings 4:37Esther 8:3Matthew 18:29I Samuel 25:28Genesis 44:33Genesis 44:34II Samuel 14:9Philemon 1:18Philemon 1:19Genesis 44:18II Samuel 14:12

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I Samuel 1:11Judges 5:27Ruth 3:9II Samuel 14:15I Samuel 25:41Ezekiel 1:7

(25) Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
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II Samuel 13:33Isaiah 42:25Malachi 2:2I Samuel 25:17I Samuel 25:26

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I Samuel 25:39I Samuel 25:5Isaiah 57:9Deuteronomy 22:6I Samuel 25:9I Samuel 15:19

(26) Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
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I Samuel 25:34I Samuel 22:3II Kings 2:2II Kings 4:6I Samuel 1:26I Samuel 25:33Genesis 20:6Romans 12:19Romans 12:20Psalms 18:47Psalms 18:48Psalms 44:3

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I Samuel 20:3I Samuel 29:6II Samuel 15:21II Kings 2:2II Kings 2:4II Kings 2:6

(27) And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
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I Samuel 30:26Genesis 33:11II Kings 5:15II Corinthians 9:5I Samuel 25:42Judges 4:10II Samuel 16:2

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(28) I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
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I Samuel 15:28II Samuel 7:11II Samuel 7:16II Samuel 7:27I Kings 9:5I Chronicles 17:10I Chronicles 17:25Psalms 89:29I Samuel 17:47I Samuel 18:17II Samuel 5:2II Chronicles 20:15

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Genesis 50:17I Samuel 1:11Leviticus 5:15

(29) Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
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I Samuel 2:9Genesis 15:1Deuteronomy 33:29Psalms 66:9Psalms 116:15Malachi 3:17Matthew 10:29Matthew 10:30John 10:27John 10:28John 10:29John 10:30

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Ezekiel 13:18Ezekiel 13:20I Corinthians 7:27Zephaniah 2:3I Kings 6:8

(30) And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
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I Samuel 13:14I Samuel 15:28I Samuel 23:17Psalms 89:20

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(31) That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
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Proverbs 5:12Proverbs 5:13Romans 14:21II Corinthians 1:12I Samuel 25:33I Samuel 24:15I Samuel 26:23II Samuel 22:48Psalms 94:1Romans 12:19I Samuel 25:40Genesis 40:14

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(32) And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
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Genesis 24:27Exodus 18:10Ezra 7:27Psalms 41:12Psalms 41:13Psalms 72:18Luke 1:68II Corinthians 8:16

(33) And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
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Psalms 141:5Proverbs 9:9Proverbs 17:10Proverbs 25:12Proverbs 27:21Proverbs 28:23I Samuel 25:26I Samuel 25:31I Samuel 24:19I Samuel 26:9I Samuel 26:10

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(34) For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
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I Samuel 25:18I Samuel 11:11Joshua 10:6Joshua 10:9

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(35) So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
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I Samuel 20:42II Samuel 15:9II Kings 5:19Luke 7:50Luke 8:48Genesis 19:21Job 34:19

(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.
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II Samuel 13:23Esther 1:3Esther 1:4Esther 1:5Esther 1:6Esther 1:7Luke 14:12II Samuel 13:28I Kings 20:16Proverbs 20:1Proverbs 23:29Proverbs 23:30

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(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.
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(38) And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
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(39) And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
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I Samuel 25:32Judges 5:2II Samuel 22:47II Samuel 22:48II Samuel 22:49Psalms 58:10Psalms 58:11Revelation 19:1Revelation 19:2Revelation 19:3Revelation 19:4Proverbs 22:23

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(40) And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
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Genesis 24:37Genesis 24:38Genesis 24:51

(41) And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
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Ruth 2:10Ruth 2:13Proverbs 15:33Proverbs 18:12Genesis 18:4John 13:3John 13:4John 13:5I Timothy 5:10

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(42) And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
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Genesis 24:61Genesis 24:62Genesis 24:63Genesis 24:64Genesis 24:65Genesis 24:66Genesis 24:67Psalms 45:10Psalms 45:11

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(43) David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
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Joshua 15:56II Samuel 3:2Genesis 2:24Matthew 19:5Matthew 19:8I Samuel 27:3I Samuel 30:5II Samuel 5:13II Samuel 5:14II Samuel 5:15II Samuel 5:16

(44) But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
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I Samuel 18:20I Samuel 18:27II Samuel 3:14

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