David And Abigail－dicnol的部落格

Now here was a man in ... Carmel, [who] was immensely easy. He had cardinal a thousand sheep and a one thousand goats. And he was cutting off his bovid.... The first name of the man was Nabal {lit: "a fool"}, and the entitle of his spouse Abigail {lit: "source of joy"} ... a female person of corking grasp and ravishing appearance; but the man was unpleasant and spiteful in his activity...

When David detected ... that Nabal was cut his sheep, David sent ten tender men ... "... go to Nabal, and ... say to him ... 'Please donate some comes to your manus to ... your son David.'"

Then Nabal ... said, "Who is David, ... Shall I next cart my staff of life and my river and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and supply it to men once I do not cognise wherever they are from?"

Then David aforesaid to his men, "Every man build up on his arm." ... give or take a few iv hundred men went near David, ...

Then Abigail ... took two cardinal loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five bovid at one time dressed, v seahs {a gnomish more than a bushel, or astir 10 gallons} of roast grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two a hundred cakes of figs, and ladened them on donkeys.

Now once Abigail saw David, she ... barbarous on her facade since David, and unerect down to the bottom.

Then David aforesaid to Abigail: "Blessed is the LORD God of Israel, who sent you this day to collect me! And ... unbroken me this day from approaching to execution and from avenging myself next to my own extremity.

... after just about ten days, that the LORD smitten Nabal, and he died.

So once David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the exact of my nag from the paw of Nabal, and has unbroken His servant from evil! For the LORD has returned the foul play of Nabal on his own caput."

And David sent and proposed to Abigail, to bear her as his married person. So Abigail ... became his married woman. (1 Samuel 25:2-9,10,12,13,18,23,32,33,38,39,42, NKJV)

Nabal was a greatly flush man. At this time, fortune was measured much in livestock, than in gold bars or hoary. David and his six one hundred men had been alive close by in the desert of Paran for a length of some months, all the clip offensive opponent communities for hay and goods, as they hid from King Saul and his military personnel.

Shearing clip had come, which was a occurrence of super affair in the past planetary. Nabal had all over 3 one thousand sheep to deformation and, of course, numerous of these were killed to nutrient the shearers. Even but David and his men had been handy for galore months, they had refused to proceeds anything from Nabal, and even weatherproof his place during that example. Since such noticeable kindness obligatory a reward, David conveyed one men to Nabal to message few nutrient as transmittal for their clip.

Nabal was a tight-fisted and full of yourself man, who reasoned his own prosperity above the necessarily of others. So he refused to stock certificate his stores next to David, and slandered his unity. He even refused to comprehend to his own servants who had well-advised him to be generous to David and his men. In terror, Nabal's servants speedily ran to Abigail, Nabal's wife, a elegant and alert woman, for assist.

Abigail at a rate of knots collected a noble subject matter for David and his men, affixed her mule, and hasty to meet David and his cardinal one hundred light-armed men (two a hundred were left-hand to guard their food). When David and Abigail met, David fast acquiesced to Abigail's request for mercy, agreed her benevolent offering, and returned to his own camp. Since David had refused to maintain himself but alternatively sure in the Lord, Nabal died a mere ten years later, and David took Abigail to be one of his own wives.

So what can we acquire from David and Abigail? First, the Lord expects us to pay the assistance prolonged to us by others, even at grave personalised cost. Second, faithful religious conviction runs towards the battle, not away from it. Third, correct faith, refuses to vindicate one's own self, but rather trusts the Lord to match the scales in His own time. Fourth, genuine reliance is e'er generous, neither stingy nor sparing.