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1 Samuel

Chapter 25

KJV · Textus Receptus

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 r thine handmaid.
32And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
33And 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.
34For 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.
35So 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.
36And 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.
37But 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.
38And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
39And 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.
40And 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.
41And 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.
42And 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.
43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
44But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

Asante Twi

1Na Samuel wuiɛ; na Israelfoɔ nyinaa boaa wɔn ho ano, na wɔsuu no, na wɔsiee no wɔ ne fie wɔ Rama. Na Dawid sɔreeɛ, na ɔsiane kɔɔ Paran ɛserɛ so.Under pastoral review
2Na ɔbarima bi wɔ Maon, a n'agyapadeɛ wɔ Karmel; na ɔbarima no yɛ kɛseɛ yie, na ɔwɔ nnwan mpem mmiɛnsa, ne mmirekyie apem: na na ɔretwitwa ne nnwan ho nwi wɔ Karmel.Under pastoral review
3Na ɔbarima no din de Nabal; na ne yere din de Abigail: na ɔyɛ ɔbaa a ne nteaseɛ yɛ, na n'anim yɛ fɛ: na ɔbarima no deɛ, ne bo yɛ duru, na ne nneyɛɛ yɛ bɔne; na ɔfiri Kaleb fie.Under pastoral review
4Na Dawid tee wɔ ɛserɛ so sɛ Nabal retwitwa ne nnwan ho nwi.Under pastoral review
5Na Dawid somaa mmeranteɛ edu, na Dawid ka kyerɛɛ mmeranteɛ no sɛ, Momforo nkɔ Karmel, na monkɔ Nabal nkyɛn, na monkyea no wɔ me din mu:Under pastoral review
6Na sei na monka nkyerɛ deɛ ɔte ase yie no, Asomdwoeɛ nka wo, na asomdwoeɛ nka wo fie, na asomdwoeɛ nka deɛ wowɔ nyinaa.Under pastoral review
7Na afei mate sɛ wowɔ nwitwitwafoɔ: na wo nnwanhwɛfoɔ a wɔne yɛn teneɛ no, yɛanha wɔn, na wɔanhwere hwee, mmerɛ dodoɔ a wɔwɔ Karmel nyinaa.Under pastoral review
8Bisa wo mmeranteɛ, na wɔbɛka akyerɛ wo. Ɛno nti ma mmeranteɛ no nnya adom w'ani so: efisɛ ɛda pa mu na yɛbaeɛ: mesrɛ wo, fa deɛ ɛbɛba wo nsam biara ma wo nkoa, ne wo ba Dawid.Under pastoral review
9Na ɛberɛ a Dawid mmeranteɛ no baeɛ no, wɔkaa saa nsɛm no nyinaa kyerɛɛ Nabal wɔ Dawid din mu, na wɔgyaeeɛ.Under pastoral review
10Na Nabal buaa Dawid nkoa no sɛ, Hwan ne Dawid? na hwan ne Yese ba? nkoa bebree wɔ hɔ ɛnnɛ mmerɛ yi a obiara dwane firi ne wura nkyɛn.Under pastoral review
11Na memfa me burodo, ne me nsuo, ne me ɛnam a makum ama me nwitwitwafoɔ, na memfa mma mmarima a mennim faako a wɔfiri anaa?Under pastoral review
12Enti Dawid mmeranteɛ no danee wɔn ho faa wɔn kwan, na wɔsane baeɛ, na wɔbɛkaa saa nsɛm no nyinaa kyerɛɛ no.Under pastoral review
13Na Dawid ka kyerɛɛ ne mmarima sɛ, Obiara mmɔ n'akofena. Na obiara bɔɔ n'akofena; na Dawid nso bɔɔ n'akofena: na bɛyɛ mmarima ahanan dii Dawid akyi foro kɔeɛ; na ahanu tenaa nneɛma no ho.Under pastoral review
14Na mmeranteɛ no mu baako ka kyerɛɛ Abigail, Nabal yere sɛ, Hwɛ, Dawid somaa abɔfoɔ firi ɛserɛ so sɛ wɔmmɛkyea yɛn wura; na ɔdidii wɔn atɛm.Under pastoral review
15Na mmarima no yɛ yɛn yie pa ara, na wɔanha yɛn, na yɛanhwere hwee, mmerɛ dodoɔ a yɛne wɔn dii nkitaho wɔ mfuo so no.Under pastoral review
16Wɔyɛɛ ɔfasuo maa yɛn anadwo ne awia nyinaa, mmerɛ dodoɔ a yɛne wɔn wɔ hɔ rehwɛ nnwan no.Under pastoral review
17Na afei hunu na dwene deɛ wobɛyɛ ho; efisɛ wɔabɔ yɛn wura ne ne fie nyinaa ho pɔ bɔne: efisɛ ɔyɛ Belial ba a obiara ntumi nkasa nkyerɛ no.Under pastoral review
18Afei Abigail yɛɛ ntɛm, na ɔfaa burodo ahanu, ne nsã nhoma kotokuo mmienu, ne nnwan enum a wɔasiesie wɔn, ne aburo a wɔatoto susudeɛ enum, ne bobe aba a wɔabɔ no atɔwatɔw ɔha, ne borɔdɔma ɔfam ahanu, na ɔde soaa mfunumu.Under pastoral review
19Na ɔka kyerɛɛ ne nkoa sɛ, Monni m'anim nkɔ; hwɛ, medi mo akyi reba. Nanso wanka ankyerɛ ne kunu Nabal.Under pastoral review
20Na ɛbaa sɛ, ɔte afunumu so resiane afa bepɔ no asuhyeɛ mu no, hwɛ, Dawid ne ne mmarima siane baa ne so; na ɔhyiaa wɔn.Under pastoral review
21Na Dawid aka sɛ, Ampa, kwa na mewɛn deɛ saa onipa yi wɔ nyinaa wɔ ɛserɛ so, na biribiara anyera wɔ deɛ ɔwɔ nyinaa mu: na ɔde bɔne atua me papa ka.Under pastoral review
22Onyankopɔn nyɛ Dawid atamfoɔ saa, na ɔmfa nka ho, sɛ megya deɛ ɔwɔ nyinaa mu deɛ ɔdwenso gu ɔfasuo ho baako mpo wɔ adekyeeɛ hann mu a.Under pastoral review
23Na ɛberɛ a Abigail hunuu Dawid no, ɔyɛɛ ntɛm siane firii afunumu no so, na ɔde n'anim butuu fam wɔ Dawid anim, na ɔkotoo fam,Under pastoral review
24Na ɔhwee ne nan ase, na ɔkaa sɛ, Me so, me wura, me so na saa amumuyɛ yi mmra: na ma w'afenaa, mesrɛ wo, nkasa w'asom, na tie w'afenaa nsɛm.Under pastoral review
25Mesrɛ wo, mma me wura mmfa saa Belial nipa yi, Nabal asɛm nnyɛ hwee: efisɛ sɛdeɛ ne din teɛ no, saa na ɔteɛ; Nabal ne ne din, na nkwaseasɛm ka ne ho: na me deɛ, w'afenaa anhunu me wura mmeranteɛ a wosomaa wɔn no.Under pastoral review
26Na afei, me wura, sɛ AWURADE te ase yi, na sɛ wo kra te ase yi, ɛberɛ a AWURADE asi wo kwan sɛ worenkɔka mogya angu, na worennfa w'ankasa wo nsa nntɔ wo so were no, afei ma w'atamfoɔ ne wɔn a wɔhwehwɛ me wura bɔne no nyɛ sɛ Nabal.Under pastoral review
27Na afei saa nhyira yi a w'afenaa de abrɛ me wura yi, ma wɔmfa mma mmeranteɛ a wɔdi me wura akyi no.Under pastoral review
28Mesrɛ wo, fa w'afenaa mmarato kyɛ no: efisɛ AWURADE bɛyɛ fie a ɛtim ama me wura ampa; efisɛ me wura ko AWURADE ako, na wɔanhunu bɔne wɔ wo mu wo nna nyinaa.Under pastoral review
29Nanso onipa asɔre sɛ ɔbɛtaa wo, na wahwehwɛ wo kra: nanso me wura kra deɛ, wɔbɛkyekyere no wɔ nkwa kotokuo mu, AWURADE wo Onyankopɔn nkyɛn; na w'atamfoɔ kra deɛ, ɔbɛto wɔn sɛdeɛ wɔto firi ahwimmoɔ mfimfini.Under pastoral review
30Na ɛbɛba sɛ, ɛberɛ a AWURADE ayɛ ama me wura sɛdeɛ papa nyinaa a waka afa wo ho no teɛ, na wasi wo ɔkannifoɔ wɔ Israel so no,Under pastoral review
31Yei renyɛ awerɛhoɔ mma wo, anaa akoma mu suntidua mma me wura, sɛ woahwie mogya agu kwa, anaasɛ me wura de n'ankasa ne nsa atɔ ne so were: na ɛberɛ a AWURADE ne me wura adi no yie no, kae w'afenaa.Under pastoral review
32Na Dawid ka kyerɛɛ Abigail sɛ, Nhyira nka AWURADE, Israel Onyankopɔn a ɔsomaa wo ɛnnɛ sɛ bɛhyia me:Under pastoral review
33Na nhyira nka w'afotuo, na nhyira nka wo a woasi me kwan ɛnnɛ sɛ merenkɔka mogya angu, na merennfa m'ankasa me nsa nntɔ me so were.Under pastoral review
34Na nokorɛ mu, sɛ AWURADE, Israel Onyankopɔn a wasi me kwan sɛ merenyɛ wo bɔne no te ase yi, sɛ woanyɛ ntɛm ammɛhyia me a, anka wɔrennya deɛ ɔdwenso gu ɔfasuo ho baako mpo amma Nabal wɔ adekyeeɛ hann mu.Under pastoral review
35Enti Dawid gyee deɛ ɔde abrɛ no no firii ne nsam, na ɔka kyerɛɛ no sɛ, Foro kɔ wo fie asomdwoeɛ mu; hwɛ, matie wo nne, na magye w'anim.Under pastoral review
36Na Abigail baa Nabal nkyɛn; na hwɛ, ɔredi apontoɔ wɔ ne fie sɛ ɔhene apontoɔ; na Nabal akoma ani gyee ne mu, efisɛ waboro nsã yie: ɛno nti wanka hwee ankyerɛ no, ketewa anaa kɛseɛ, kɔsii adekyeeɛ hann.Under pastoral review
37Na ɛbaa anɔpa, ɛberɛ a nsã no afiri Nabal mu, na ne yere kaa saa nsɛm yi kyerɛɛ no no, n'akoma wuu wɔ ne mu, na ɔdanee ɛboɔ.Under pastoral review
38Na ɛbaa bɛyɛ nna edu akyi sɛ, AWURADE bɔɔ Nabal, na ɔwuiɛ.Under pastoral review
39Na ɛberɛ a Dawid tee sɛ Nabal awu no, ɔkaa sɛ, Nhyira nka AWURADE a wadi m'ahohora asɛm afiri Nabal nsam, na wasi n'akoa kwan afiri bɔne ho: na AWURADE asane de Nabal amumuyɛ agu n'ankasa ne ti so. Na Dawid somaa kɔkasa kyerɛɛ Abigail sɛ ɔbɛfa no ayɛ ne yere.Under pastoral review
40Na ɛberɛ a Dawid nkoa baa Abigail nkyɛn wɔ Karmel no, wɔka kyerɛɛ no sɛ, Dawid somaa yɛn wo nkyɛn sɛ yɛmmɛfa wo nkɔma no sɛ ne yere.Under pastoral review
41Na ɔsɔreeɛ, na ɔde n'anim butuu fam, na ɔkaa sɛ, Hwɛ, ma w'afenaa nyɛ afenaa a ɔhohoro me wura nkoa nan ho.Under pastoral review
42Na Abigail yɛɛ ntɛm sɔreeɛ, na ɔtenaa afunumu so, ɔne ne mmabaawa enum a wɔdi n'akyi; na ɔdii Dawid abɔfoɔ no akyi, na ɔbɛyɛɛ ne yere.Under pastoral review
43Dawid faa Ahinoam nso a ɔfiri Yesreel; na wɔn baanu nyinaa yɛɛ ne yerenom.Under pastoral review
44Na Saulo deɛ, ɔde ne babaa Mikal, Dawid yere maa Palti, Lais babarima a ɔfiri Galim.Under pastoral review

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