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1 Samuel 25:19

And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Decision;   Fig;   Nabal;   Prudence;   Tact;   Wife;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nabal;   Samuel;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abigail;   Carmel;   Wife;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Carmel;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Gift, Giving;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Abigail ;   Carmel ;   Nabal ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Abigail;   Nabal;  

Encyclopedias:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Abigail;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then she said to her male servants, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Hebrew Names Version
She said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she didn't tell her husband, Naval.
King James Version
And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
Lexham English Bible
Then she said to her servants, "Go ahead before me; look, I am coming after you," but she did not tell her husband Nabal.
English Standard Version
And she said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
New Century Version
Then she told her servants, "Go on. I'll follow you." But she did not tell her husband.
New English Translation
and said to her servants, "Go on ahead of me. I will come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Amplified Bible
She said to her young men (servants), "Go on ahead of me; behold, I am coming after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
New American Standard Bible
Then she said to her young men, "Go on ahead of me; behold, I am coming after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then she said vnto her seruants, Go ye before me: beholde, I will come after you: yet she tolde not her husband Nabal.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then she said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Contemporary English Version
and told her servants, "Take this on ahead, and I'll catch up with you." She didn't tell her husband Nabal what she was doing.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then she said to her young men, "Go on ahead of me, and I'll come along after you." But she didn't tell her husband Naval.
Darby Translation
And she said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Abigail told her servants, "Go on. I'll follow you." But she did not tell her husband.
George Lamsa Translation
And she said to the servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Good News Translation
Then she said to the servants, "You go on ahead and I will follow you." But she said nothing to her husband.
Literal Translation
And she said to her young men, Pass on before me. Behold, I am coming after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde to hir yonge men: Go ye youre waye before me, beholde, I wyl come after. And she tolde Nabal hir housbade nothinge therof.
American Standard Version
And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And sayde vnto her young men: Go before me, beholde I come after you. But she tolde her husband Nabal nothing thereof.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And she said unto her young men: 'Go on before me; behold, I come after you.' But she told not her husband Nabal.
King James Version (1611)
And she said vnto her seruants, Goe on before me, behold, I come after you: but she told not her husband Nabal.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she said to her servants, Go on before me, and behold I come after you: but she told not her husband.
English Revised Version
And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
Berean Standard Bible
and said to her young men, "Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide to hir children, Go ye bifor me; lo! Y schal sue you `aftir the bak. Forsothe sche schewide not to hir hosebonde Nabal.
Young's Literal Translation
And she saith to her young men, `Pass over before me; lo, after you I am coming;' and to her husband Nabal she hath not declared [it];
Update Bible Version
And she said to her young men, Go on before me; look, I come after you. But she didn't tell her husband Nabal.
Webster's Bible Translation
And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
World English Bible
She said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she didn't tell her husband, Nabal.
New King James Version
And she said to her servants, "Go on before me; see, I am coming after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
New Living Translation
and said to her servants, "Go on ahead. I will follow you shortly." But she didn't tell her husband Nabal what she was doing.
New Life Bible
She said to her young men, "Go on before me. See, I am coming after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
New Revised Standard
and said to her young men, "Go on ahead of me; I am coming after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And she said to her young men - Pass on before me, behold me coming after you; but, to her husband, Nabal, told she nothing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal.
Revised Standard Version
And she said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
She said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

Contextual Overview

18 Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses. 19 And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal. 20 Now while she was going down under cover of the mountain on her ass, David and his men came down against her, and suddenly she came face to face with them. 21 Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good. 22 May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living. 23 And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him. 24 And falling at his feet she said, May the wrong be on me, my lord, on me: let your servant say a word to you, and give ear to the words of your servant. 25 Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent. 26 So now, my lord, by the living God and by your living soul, seeing that the Lord has kept you from the crime of blood and from taking into your hands the punishment for your wrongs, may all your haters, and those who would do evil to my lord, be like Nabal. 27 And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Go: Genesis 32:16, Genesis 32:20

But: Proverbs 31:11, Proverbs 31:12, Proverbs 31:27

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:1 - he told not 1 Samuel 25:36 - she told him 2 Kings 4:24 - Drive

Cross-References

1 Chronicles 1:32
And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's servant-wife: she was the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
Matthew 1:2
The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;
Luke 3:34
The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
Acts 7:8
And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she said to her servants, go on before me,.... With the present, the sight of which she wisely considered would in a great measure pacify David, and prepare him to hear patiently what she had to say to him:

behold, I come after you; signifying it would not be long before she came up to them, and overtook them:

but she told not her husband Nabal; neither the danger he and his family were in through his conduct, nor the preparations she had made to prevent it; knowing his perverse and obstinate disposition, that it would take up too much time to reason with him, and persuade him, and bring him into proper measures; and which may be observed to excuse the conduct of Abigail in doing what she did, and taking and disposing of her husband's gods, without his knowledge and leave; the case required haste, and it was done to preserve him and his family from imminent ruin; and besides, he might not be in a fit condition to be spoken to, being drunk with passion, or with wine, or both, see 1 Samuel 25:36; and no doubt she was directed by the Spirit of God to do what she did; and this being an extraordinary case, is not to be drawn into an example.


 
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