1 Samuel 25:25

Contextual Overview

¹⁸Abigail hurried, taking two hundred loaves of bread, two clay jars of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. ¹⁸ Then Avigayil made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. 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. ¹⁸ Then Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put them on the donkeys. ¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. ¹⁸ Abigail hurried. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two leather bags full of wine, five cooked sheep, a bushel of cooked grain, a hundred cakes of raisins, and two hundred cakes of pressed figs and put all these on donkeys. ¹⁸ So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys ¹⁸Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two jugs of wine, five sheep already prepared [for roasting], five measures of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys. ¹⁸ Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine, and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain, and a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and she loaded them on donkeys. ¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste, & tooke two hundreth cakes, & two bottels of wine, & fiue sheepe ready dressed, & fiue measures of parched corne, and an hundreth frailes of raisins, & two hundreth of figs, and laded them on asses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

regard: Heb. lay it to his heart, 2 Samuel 13:33, Isaiah 42:25, Malachi 2:2

man of Belial: 1 Samuel 25:17, 1 Samuel 25:26

Nabal: that is, fool

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:27 - look not Deuteronomy 13:13 - the children Judges 19:22 - sons of Belial 1 Samuel 1:16 - a daughter 1 Samuel 30:22 - wicked 2 Samuel 19:19 - take it Psalms 14:1 - fool Psalms 85:8 - folly Proverbs 13:16 - a fool Proverbs 19:1 - perverse Proverbs 30:22 - a fool

Cross-References

Genesis 27:11
Ya`akov said to Rivka his mother, "Behold, Esav my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Genesis 27:11
And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

Genesis 27:11
Then Jacob said to his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man.

Genesis 27:11
But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, "My brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am smooth!

Genesis 27:11
"But Esau my brother is a hairy man," Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, "and I have smooth skin!

Genesis 27:11
Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Listen, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth [skinned] man.

Genesis 27:11
But Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.

Genesis 27:11
But Iaakob sayde to Rebekah his mother, Beholde, Esau my brother is rough, and I am smoothe.

Genesis 27:11
Then Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Genesis 27:11
"My brother Esau is a hairy man," Jacob reminded her. "And I am not.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial,

[even] Nabal,.... He is a worthless man, it must be owned, a weak foolish man, rather to be despised than regarded by him; what either he says or does is unworthy of the notice of any, and much less of so great a person as David was:

for as his name [is], so [is] he; his natural disposition, genius, and conduct, agree with his name; when anyone knows his name, he may judge what is to be expected from him:

Nabal [is] his name: which signifies a fool:

and folly, in Hebrew, "Nebalah",

[is] with him; attends all, his words and actions. This character of her husband, though no doubt a just one, yet it would not have been right in her to have given it, whose folly she should rather have concealed, but that it was his well known character; and she observes it not to reproach him with it, but to excuse his sin, his rudeness and ingratitude and preserve his life; and suggests that what he had done was not to be imputed to malice in his heart, but to his stupidity and folly, and so not to be regarded, and was not a peculiar single action of his, but what he was daily more or less guilty of; his folly was with him wherever he went and appeared in everything he said or did, and therefore to be overlooked and despised:

but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send: as she had taken the blame upon herself, now she answers for herself, and pleads ignorance of his messengers, and their message; she had not so much as seen them with her eyes, and much less heard their message when reported; had she, she would have taken care, she intimates, that it should have been attended to; having so much interest in her husband, that she could have prevailed on him to have used them with civility, and granted their request.