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The Bible In One Year Bible Reading For Day Number - 108 First
Samuel -- 25{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. {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. {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. {4} And David heard
in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. {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: {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. {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. {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. {9} And when
David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the
name of David, and ceased. {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. {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? {12} So David's
young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
{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.
{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. {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: {16} They were a wall unto us both by night and
day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. {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. {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. {19} And she said unto her servants, Go on before me;
behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. {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.
{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. {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. {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, {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. {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. {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. {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. {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. {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. {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; {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.
{32} And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which
sent thee this day to meet me: {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. {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. {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.
{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.
{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. {38} And it came to pass about ten days after,
that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died. {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. {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. {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. {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.
{43} David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them
his wives. {44} But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife,
to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim. First
Samuel -- 26{1}
And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself
in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon? {2} Then Saul arose,
and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel
with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. {3} And Saul pitched
in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode
in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
{4} David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in
very deed. {5} And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had
pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner,
the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round
about him. {6} Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite,
and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with
me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee. {7}
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping
within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner
and the people lay round about him. {8} Then said Abishai to David,
God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me
smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not
smite him the second time. {9} And David said to Abishai, Destroy him
not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?
{10} David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him;
or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
{11} The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the
LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster,
and the cruse of water, and let us go. {12} So David took the spear
and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man
saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep
sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them. {13} Then David went over
to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being
between them: {14} And David cried to the people, and to Abner the
son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who
art thou that criest to the king? {15} And David said to Abner, Art
not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast
thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy
the king thy lord. {16} This thing is not good that thou hast done.
As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master,
the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water
that was at his bolster. {17} And Saul knew David's voice, and said,
Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
{18} And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant?
for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand? {19} Now therefore,
I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have
stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children
of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from
abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods. {20}
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD:
for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge
in the mountains. {21} Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son
David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine
eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
{22} And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one
of the young men come over and fetch it. {23} The LORD render to every
man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my
hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.
{24} And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so
let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out
of all tribulation. {25} Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou,
my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So
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