David, Nabal and Abigail
1Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.25:1 Hebrew and some Septuagint manuscripts; other Septuagint manuscripts Maon
2A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. 3His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.
4While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep. 5So he sent ten young men and said to them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name. 6Say to him: ‘Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!
7“ ‘Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing. 8Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.’ ”
9When David’s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David’s name. Then they waited.
10Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days. 11Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”
12David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word. 13David said to his men, “Each of you strap on your sword!” So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.
14One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them. 15Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing. 16Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. 17Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”
18Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs25:18 That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. 19Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
20As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them. 21David had just said, “It’s been useless—all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good. 22May God deal with David,25:22 Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew with David’s enemies be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”
23When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground. 24She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say. 25Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent. 26And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal. 27And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.
28“Please forgive your servant’s presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord’s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live. 29Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling. 30When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel, 31my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.”
32David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. 33May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. 34Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”
35Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.”
36When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak. 37Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone. 38About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died.
39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.”
Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife. 40His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.”
41She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord’s servants.” 42Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David’s messengers and became his wife. 43David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives. 44But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel25:44 Hebrew Palti, a variant of Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
Dafidi, Nabali àti Abigaili
1Samuẹli sì kú; gbogbo ènìyàn Israẹli sì kó ara wọn jọ, wọ́n sì sọkún rẹ̀ wọ́n sì sin ín nínú ilé rẹ̀ ní Rama. Dafidi sì dìde, ó sì sọ̀kalẹ̀ lọ sí ijù Parani.
2Ọkùnrin kan sì ń bẹ ní Maoni, ẹni tí iṣẹ́ rẹ̀ ń bẹ ní Karmeli; ọkùnrin náà sì ní ọrọ̀ púpọ̀, ó sì ní ẹgbẹ̀ẹ́dógún àgùntàn, àti ẹgbẹ̀rún ewúrẹ́: ó sì ń rẹ irun àgùntàn rẹ̀ ní Karmeli. 3Orúkọ ọkùnrin náà sì ń jẹ́ Nabali, orúkọ aya rẹ̀ ń jẹ́ Abigaili; òun sì jẹ́ olóye obìnrin, àti arẹwà ènìyàn; ṣùgbọ́n òǹrorò àti oníwà búburú ni ọkùnrin; ẹni ìdílé Kalebu ni òun jẹ́.
4Dafidi sì gbọ́ ní aginjù pé Nabali ń rẹ́ irun àgùntàn rẹ̀. 5Dafidi sì rán ọmọkùnrin mẹ́wàá, Dafidi sì sọ fún àwọn ọ̀dọ́kùnrin náà pé, “Ẹ gòkè lọ sí Karmeli, kí ẹ sì tọ Nabali lọ, kí ẹ sì kí i ni orúkọ mi. 6Báyìí ni ẹ ó sì wí fún ẹni tí ó wà ni ìrora pé, ‘Àlàáfíà fún ọ! Àlàáfíà fún ohun gbogbo tí ìwọ ní!
7“ ‘Ǹjẹ́ mo gbọ́ pé, àwọn olùrẹ́run ń bẹ lọ́dọ̀ rẹ Wò ó, àwọn olùṣọ́-àgùntàn rẹ ti wà lọ́dọ̀ wa àwa kò sì pa wọ́n lára, wọn kò sì sọ ohunkóhun nù ní gbogbo ọjọ́ tí wọ́n wà ní Karmeli. 8Bi àwọn ọmọkùnrin rẹ léèrè, wọn ó sì sọ fún ọ. Nítorí náà, jẹ́ kí àwọn ọmọkùnrin wọ̀nyí rí ojúrere lọ́dọ̀ rẹ; nítorí pé àwa sá wá ní ọjọ́ àsè: èmi bẹ̀ ọ́ ohunkóhun tí ọwọ́ rẹ bá bà, fi fún àwọn ìránṣẹ́ rẹ, àti fún Dafidi ọmọ rẹ.’ ”
9Àwọn ọmọkùnrin Dafidi sì lọ, wọ́n sì sọ fún Nabali gẹ́gẹ́ bí gbogbo ọ̀rọ̀ wọ̀nyí ní orúkọ Dafidi, wọ́n sì sinmi.
10Nabali sì dá àwọn ìránṣẹ́ Dafidi lóhùn pé, “Ta ni ń jẹ́ Dafidi? Tàbí ta ni sì ń jẹ́ ọmọ Jese? Ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ ìránṣẹ́ ni ń bẹ ni ìsinsin yìí tí wọn sá olúkúlùkù kúrò lọ́dọ̀ olúwa rẹ̀. 11Ǹjẹ́ ki èmi o mú oúnjẹ mi, àti omi mi, àti ẹran mi ti mo pa fún àwọn olùrẹ́run mi, ki èmi sì fi fún àwọn ọkùnrin ti èmi kò mọ̀ ibi wọ́n ti wá?”
12Bẹ́ẹ̀ ni àwọn ọmọkùnrin Dafidi sì mú ọ̀nà wọn pọ̀n, wọ́n sì padà, wọ́n sì wá, wọn si rò fún un gẹ́gẹ́ bi gbogbo ọ̀rọ̀ wọ̀nyí. 13Dafidi sí wí fún àwọn ọmọkùnrin rẹ̀ pé, “Kí olúkúlùkù yín ó di idà rẹ́ mọ́ ìdí,” Olúkúlùkù ọkùnrin sì di idà tirẹ̀ mọ́ ìdí; àti Dafidi pẹ̀lú sì di idà tirẹ̀; ìwọ̀n irínwó ọmọkùnrin si gòkè tọ Dafidi lẹ́yìn; igba si jókòó níbi ẹrù.
14Ọ̀kan nínú àwọn ọmọkùnrin Nabali si wí fún Abigaili aya rẹ̀ pé, “Wo o, Dafidi rán oníṣẹ́ láti aginjù wá láti kí olúwa wa; ó sì kanra mọ́ wọn. 15Ṣùgbọ́n àwọn ọkùnrin náà ṣe oore fún wa gidigidi, wọn kò ṣe wá ní ibi kan, ohunkóhun kò nù ni ọwọ́ wa ni gbogbo ọjọ́ ti àwa bá wọn rìn nígbà ti àwa ń bẹ lóko. 16Odi ni wọ́n sá à jásí fún wa lọ́sàn án, àti lóru, ni gbogbo ọjọ́ ti a fi bá wọn gbé, tí a n bojútó àwọn àgùntàn. 17Ǹjẹ́, rò ó wò, kí ìwọ sì mọ èyí ti ìwọ yóò ṣe; nítorí pé a ti gbèrò ibi sí olúwa wa, àti sí gbogbo ilé rẹ̀; òun sì jásí ọmọ Beliali tí a kò le sọ̀rọ̀ fún.”
18Abigaili sì yára, ó sì mú igbá ìṣù àkàrà àti ìgò ọtí wáìnì méjì, àti àgùntàn márùn-ún, tí a ti ṣè, àti òṣùwọ̀n àgbàdo yíyan márùn-ún, àti ọgọ́rùn-ún ìdì àjàrà, àti igba àkàrà èso ọ̀pọ̀tọ́, ó sì dìwọ́n ru kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́. 19Òun sì wí fún àwọn ọmọkùnrin rẹ̀ pé, “Máa lọ níwájú mi; wò ó, èmi ń bọ̀ lẹ́yìn yín,” Ṣùgbọ́n òun kò wí fún Nabali baálé rẹ̀.
20Bí o ti gun orí kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ tí ó sì ń sọ̀kalẹ̀ sí ibi ìkọ̀kọ̀ òkè náà, wò ó, Dafidi àti àwọn ọmọkùnrin rẹ̀ sì sọ̀kalẹ̀ níwájú rẹ̀; òun sì wá pàdé wọn. 21Dafidi sì ti wí pé, “Ǹjẹ́ lásán ni èmi ti pa gbogbo èyí tí i ṣe ti eléyìí ní aginjù, ti ohunkóhun kò sì nù nínú gbogbo èyí ti í ṣe tirẹ̀: òun ni ó sì fi ibi san ìre fún mi yìí. 22Bẹ́ẹ̀ àti jù bẹ́ẹ̀ lọ, ni ki Ọlọ́run ó ṣe sí àwọn ọ̀tá Dafidi, bi èmi bá fi ọkùnrin kan sílẹ̀ nínú gbogbo èyí tí i ṣe tirẹ̀ títí di ìmọ́lẹ̀ òwúrọ̀.”
23Abigaili sì rí Dafidi, ó sì yára, ó sọ̀kalẹ̀ lórí kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́, ó sì dojúbolẹ̀ níwájú Dafidi, ó sì rẹ ara rẹ̀ sílẹ̀. 24Ó sì wólẹ̀ lẹ́bàá ẹsẹ̀ rẹ̀, ó wí pé, “Olúwa mi, fi ẹ̀ṣẹ̀ yìí yá mi: kí ó sì jẹ́ kí ìránṣẹ́bìnrin rẹ, èmi bẹ̀ ọ́, sọ̀rọ̀ létí rẹ, kí ó sì gbọ́ ọ̀rọ̀ ìránṣẹ́bìnrin rẹ. 25Olúwa mi, èmi bẹ̀ ọ́ má ka ọkùnrin Beliali yìí sí, àní Nabali: nítorí pé bí orúkọ rẹ̀ ti jẹ́ bẹ́ẹ̀ ni òun náà rí: Nabali ni orúkọ rẹ̀, àìmoye si wà pẹ̀lú rẹ̀; ṣùgbọ́n èmi ìránṣẹ́bìnrin rẹ kò ri àwọn ọmọkùnrin olúwa mi, ti ìwọ rán. 26Ǹjẹ́ olúwa mi, bi Olúwa ti wà láààyè, àti bí ẹ̀mí rẹ̀ si ti wà láààyè, bi Olúwa sì ti dá ọ dúró láti wá ta ẹ̀jẹ̀ sílẹ̀, àti láti fi ọwọ́ ara rẹ gba ẹ̀san; ǹjẹ́, kí àwọn ọ̀tá rẹ, àti àwọn ẹni tí ń gbèrò ibi sí olúwa mi rí bi i Nabali. 27Ǹjẹ́ èyí ni ẹ̀bùn tí ìránṣẹ́bìnrin rẹ mú wá fún olúwa mi, jẹ́ kí a sì fi fún àwọn ọmọkùnrin ti ń tọ olúwa mi lẹ́yìn.
28“Èmi bẹ̀ ọ́, fi ìrékọjá arábìnrin rẹ jìn ín, nítorí Olúwa yóò sá ṣe ilé òdodo fún olúwa mi, nítorí pé ó ja ogun Olúwa. Nítorí náà kí a má ri ibi kan ni ọwọ́ rẹ níwọ̀n ìgbà tí ó wà láààyè. 29Bí ọkùnrin kan bá sì dìde láti máa lépa rẹ, àti máa wá ẹ̀mí rẹ, a ó sì di ẹ̀mí olúwa mi nínú ìdì ìyè lọ́dọ̀ Olúwa Ọlọ́run rẹ; àti ẹ̀mí àwọn ọ̀tá rẹ ni a ó sì gbọ̀n sọnù gẹ́gẹ́ bí kànnàkànnà jáde. 30Yóò sì ṣe, Olúwa yóò ṣe sí olúwa mi gẹ́gẹ́ bí gbogbo ìre tí ó ti wí nípa tirẹ̀, yóò sì yàn ọ́ ni aláṣẹ lórí Israẹli. 31Èyí kì yóò sì jásí ìbànújẹ́ fún ọ, tàbí ìbànújẹ́ ọkàn fún olúwa mi, nítorí pé ìwọ ta ẹ̀jẹ̀ aláìṣẹ̀ sílẹ̀, tàbí pé olúwa mi gba ẹ̀san fún ara rẹ̀: ṣùgbọ́n nígbà tí Olúwa ba ṣe oore fún olúwa mi, ǹjẹ́ rántí ìránṣẹ́bìnrin rẹ!”
32Dafidi sì wí fún Abigaili pé, “Alábùkún fún ni Olúwa Ọlọ́run Israẹli, tí ó rán ọ lónìí yìí láti pàdé mi. 33Ìbùkún ni fún ọgbọ́n rẹ, alábùkún sì ni ìwọ, tí ó da mi dúró lónìí yìí láti wá ta ẹ̀jẹ̀ sílẹ̀, àti láti fi ọwọ́ mi gba ẹ̀san fún ara mi. 34Nítòótọ́, bí Olúwa Ọlọ́run Israẹli tí ń bẹ, tí ó da mi dúró láti pa ọ́ lára bí kò ṣe pé bí ìwọ ti yára tí ó sì wá pàdé mi, nítòótọ́ kì bá tí kù fún Nabali di ìmọ́lẹ̀ òwúrọ̀ nínú àwọn ọkùnrin rẹ̀.”
35Bẹ́ẹ̀ ni Dafidi sì gba nǹkan tí ó mú wá fún un lọ́wọ́ rẹ̀, ó sì wí fún un pé, “Gòkè lọ ni àlàáfíà sí ilé rẹ, wò ó, èmi ti gbọ́ ohùn rẹ, inú mi sì dùn sí ọ.”
36Abigaili sì tọ Nabali wá, sì wò ó, òun sì ṣe àsè ni ilé rẹ̀ gẹ́gẹ́ bí àsè ọba: inú Nabali sì dùn nítorí pé, ó ti mú ọtí ni àmupara; òun kò si sọ nǹkan fún un, díẹ̀ tàbí púpọ̀: títí di ìmọ́lẹ̀ òwúrọ̀ 37Ó sì ṣe; ni òwúrọ̀, nígbà ti ọtí náà si dá tán lójú Nabali, obìnrin rẹ̀ sì ro nǹkan wọ̀nyí fún un, ọkàn rẹ sì kú nínú rẹ̀, òun sì dàbí òkúta. 38Ó sì ṣe lẹ́yìn ìwọ̀n ọjọ́ mẹ́wàá, Olúwa lu Nabali, ó sì kú.
39Dafidi sì gbọ́ pé Nabali kú, ó sì wí pé, “Ìyìn ni fún Olúwa tí o gbèjà gígàn mi láti ọwọ́ Nabali wá, tí ó sì dá ìránṣẹ́ rẹ̀ dúró láti ṣe ibi: Olúwa sì yí ìkà Nabali sí orí òun tìkára rẹ̀.”
Dafidi sì ránṣẹ́, ó sì ba Abigaili sọ̀rọ̀ láti mú un fi ṣe aya fún ara rẹ̀. 40Àwọn ìránṣẹ́ Dafidi sì lọ sọ́dọ̀ Abigaili ni Karmeli, wọn sì sọ fún un pé, “Dafidi rán wá si ọ láti mu ọ ṣe aya rẹ̀.”
41Ó sì dìde, ó sì dojúbolẹ̀, ó sì wí pé, “Wò ó, jẹ́ kí ìránṣẹ́bìnrin rẹ ó jẹ́ ìránṣẹ́ kan láti máa wẹ ẹsẹ̀ àwọn ìránṣẹ́ olúwa mi.” 42Abigaili sì yára, ó sì dìde, ó sì gun kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́, àwọn ìránṣẹ́bìnrin rẹ̀ márùn-ún sì tẹ̀lé e lẹ́yìn; òun sì tẹ̀lé àwọn ìránṣẹ́ Dafidi, o sì wá di aya rẹ̀. 43Dafidi sì mú Ahinoamu ará Jesreeli; àwọn méjèèjì sì jẹ́ aya rẹ̀. 44Ṣùgbọ́n Saulu ti fi Mikali ọmọ rẹ̀ obìnrin aya Dafidi, fún Palti ọmọ Laiṣi tí i ṣe ara Galimu.
