Nabal
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....
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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:...
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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....
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According to the 1st Book of Samuel Chapter 25, Nabal (נבל),
was a rich Calebite[1] who was also described as being harsh
and surly. David (who was not yet king) and his band of men
who had been outlawed by King Saul were living off the
Wilderness of Paran and providing voluntary protection to
the shepherds in the area.[2]
The account states t...
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Of Maon. (See MAON.); 1 Samuel 25, compare 1 Samuel 23:25.
(See DAVID.) A sheepmaster on the border of Judah which took
its name from the great "Caleb" (3) (1 Samuel 30:14), next the
wilderness. His history, as also that of Boaz, Barzillai,
Naboth, is a sample of a Jew's private life (1 Samuel 25:2; 1
Samuel 25:4; 1 Samuel 25:36)....
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na'-bal (nabhal, "foolish" or "wicked"; Nabal): A wealthy
man of Maon in the highlands of Judah, not far from Hebron,
owner of many sheep and goats which he pastured around
Carmel in the same district. He was a churlish and wicked
man (1 Sam 25:2 ff). When David was a fugitive from Saul, he
and his followers sought refuge in the wilderness of ...
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-(Husband of Abigail; Hebrew means "fool.")
-History of
1Sa 25:2-38...
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(fool) was a sheepmaster on the confines of Judea and the
desert, in that part of the country which bore from its
great conqueror the name of Caleb. 1Sa 25:3; 30:14 (B.C.
about 1055.) His residence was on the southern Carmel, in
the pasture lands of Maon. His wealth, as might be expected
from his abode, consisted chiefly of sheep and goats. It...
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foolish, a descendant of Caleb who dwelt at Maon (1 Sam.
25),
the modern Main, 7 miles south-east of Hebron. He
was "very
great, and he had 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats...but
the man was
churlish and evil in his doings." During his
wanderings David
came into that district, and hearing that Nabal was
about to
shear his sheep, he sent ten of...
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