1 Samuel 25

1 And Samuel died; and all Israel were gathered together, and lamented him; and they buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

and to die Samuel and to gather all Israel and to mourn to/for him and to bury him in/on/with house: home his in/on/with Ramah and to arise: rise David and to go down to(wards) wilderness Paran

2 And there was a man at Maon, whose business was at Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep at Carmel.

and man in/on/with Maon and deed: work his in/on/with Carmel and [the] man great: large much and to/for him flock three thousand and thousand goat and to be in/on/with to shear [obj] flock his in/on/with Carmel

3 And the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was a Calebite.

and name [the] man Nabal and name woman: wife his Abigail and [the] woman pleasant understanding and beautiful appearance and [the] man severe and bad: evil deed and he/she/it (Calebite *Q(K)*)

4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

and to hear: hear David in/on/with wilderness for to shear Nabal [obj] flock his

5 Then David sent out ten young men; and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

and to send: depart David ten youth and to say David to/for youth to ascend: rise Carmel [to] and to come (in): come to(wards) Nabal and to ask to/for him in/on/with name my to/for peace: greeting

6 And thus shall ye say: Long life [to thee]! and peace be to thee, and peace be to thy house, and peace be to all that thou hast!

and to say thus to/for alive and you(m. s.) peace: greeting and house: household your peace: greeting and all which to/for you peace: greeting

7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers; now thy shepherds who were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there aught missed by them, all the while they were in Carmel.

and now to hear: hear for to shear to/for you now [the] to pasture which to/for you to be with us not be humiliated them and not to reckon: missing to/for them anything all day to be they in/on/with Carmel

8 Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee. Therefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes; for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, what thy hand may find to thy servants, and to thy son David.

to ask [obj] youth your and to tell to/for you and to find [the] youth favor in/on/with eye: appearance your for upon day pleasant to come (in): come to give: give [emph?] please [obj] which to find hand: power your to/for servant/slave your and to/for son: child your to/for David

9 And David's young men came, and spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

and to come (in): come youth David and to speak: speak to(wards) Nabal like/as all [the] word: thing [the] these in/on/with name David and to rest

10 And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master.

and to answer Nabal [obj] servant/slave David and to say who? David and who? son: child Jesse [the] day to multiply servant/slave [the] to break through man: anyone from face: before lord his

11 And shall I take my bread, and my water, and my flesh which I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] to men whom I know not whence they are?

and to take: take [obj] food: bread my and [obj] water my and [obj] slaughtered my which to slaughter to/for to shear me and to give: give to/for human which not to know where? from this they(masc.)

12 And David's young men turned their way, and went back, and came and reported to him according to all those words.

and to overturn youth David to/for way: journey their and to return: return and to come (in): come and to tell to/for him like/as all [the] word: thing [the] these

13 And David said to 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 baggage.

and to say David to/for human his to gird man: anyone [obj] sword his and to gird man: anyone [obj] sword his and to gird also David [obj] sword his and to ascend: rise after David like/as four hundred man and hundred to dwell upon [the] article/utensil

14 And one of [Nabal's] young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our master; and he has insulted them.

and to/for Abigail woman: wife Nabal to tell youth one from [the] youth to/for to say behold to send: depart David messenger from [the] wilderness to/for to bless [obj] lord our and to scream in/on/with them

15 And the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we companied with them, when we were in the fields.

and [the] human pleasant to/for us much and not be humiliated and not to reckon: missing anything all day to go: went with them in/on/with to be we in/on/with land: country

16 They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them feeding the sheep.

wall to be upon us also night also by day all day to be we with them to pasture [the] flock

17 And now know and consider what thou wilt do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household; and he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.

and now to know and to see: examine what? to make: do for to end: decides [the] distress: harm to(wards) lord our and upon all house: household his and he/she/it son: descendant/people Belial from to speak: speak to(wards) him

18 And Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skin-bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched [corn], and a hundred raisin-cakes, and two hundred fig-cakes, and laid them on asses.

and to hasten (Abigail *Q(k)*) and to take: take hundred food: bread and two bag wine and five flock (to make *Q(k)*) and five seah roasted and hundred cluster and hundred fig cake and to set: put upon [the] donkey

19 And she said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

and to say to/for youth her to pass to/for face: before my look! I after you to come (in): come and to/for man: husband her Nabal not to tell

20 And as she was riding on the ass, and coming down by the covert of the hill, behold, David and his men came down opposite to her; and she met them.

and to be he/she/it to ride upon [the] donkey and to go down in/on/with secrecy [the] mountain: mount and behold David and human his to go down to/for to encounter: toward her and to meet [obj] them

21 Now David had said, Surely, in vain have I kept all that this [man] had in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that was his; and he has requited me evil for good.

and David to say surely to/for deception to keep: guard [obj] all which to/for this in/on/with wilderness and not to reckon: missing from all which to/for him anything and to return: return to/for me distress: evil underneath: instead welfare

22 So and more also do God to the enemies of David, if I leave of all that is his by the morning light any male.

thus to make: do God to/for enemy David and thus to add if: surely no to remain from all which to/for him till [the] morning to urinate in/on/with 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,

and to see: see Abigail [obj] David and to hasten and to go down from upon [the] donkey and to fall: fall to/for face David upon face her and to bow land: soil

24 and fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, [upon] me let the iniquity be; but let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear the words of thy handmaid.

and to fall: fall upon foot his and to say in/on/with me I lord my [the] iniquity: guilt and to speak: speak please maidservant your in/on/with ear: to ears your and to hear: hear [obj] word maidservant your

25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I thy handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

not please to set: consider lord my [obj] heart his to(wards) man [the] Belial [the] this upon Nabal for like/as name his so he/she/it Nabal name his and folly with him and I maidservant your not to see: see [obj] youth lord my which to send: depart

26 And now, my lord, [as] Jehovah liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah has restrained thee from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

and now lord my alive LORD and alive soul your which to withhold you LORD from to come (in): come in/on/with blood and to save hand: themselves your to/for you and now to be like/as Nabal enemy your and [the] to seek to(wards) lord my distress: evil

27 And now this blessing which thy bondmaid has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men that follow my lord.

and now [the] blessing [the] this which to come (in): bring maidservant your to/for lord my and to give: give to/for youth [the] to go: follow in/on/with foot lord my

28 I pray thee, forgive the transgression of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a lasting house; because my lord fights the battles of Jehovah, and evil has not been found in thee all thy days.

to lift: forgive please to/for transgression maidservant your for to make to make LORD to/for lord my house: household be faithful for battle LORD lord my to fight and distress: evil not to find in/on/with you from day your

29 And if a man is risen up to pursue thee and to seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out from the hollow of the sling.

and to arise: rise man to/for to pursue you and to/for to seek [obj] soul: life your and to be soul: life lord my to constrain in/on/with bundle [the] alive with LORD God your and [obj] soul: life enemy your to sling her in/on/with midst palm: dish [the] sling

30 And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah shall do to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning thee, and shall appoint thee ruler over Israel,

and to be for to make: do LORD to/for lord my like/as all which to speak: speak [obj] [the] welfare upon you and to command you to/for leader upon Israel

31 that this shall be no stumbling-block to thee, nor offence of heart for my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall deal well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.

and not to be this to/for you to/for staggering and to/for stumbling heart to/for lord my and to/for to pour: kill blood for nothing and to/for to save lord my to/for him and be good LORD to/for lord my and to remember [obj] maidservant your

32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me.

and to say David to/for Abigail to bless LORD God Israel which to send: depart you [the] day: today [the] this to/for to encounter: meet me

33 And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

and to bless taste your and to bless you(f. s.) which to restrain me [the] day: today [the] this from to come (in): come in/on/with blood and to save hand: themselves my to/for me

34 But indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, who has restrained me from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any male.

and but alive LORD God Israel which to withhold me from be evil [obj] you for unless to hasten (and to come (in): come *Q(k)*) to/for to encounter: meet me that if: except if: except to remain to/for Nabal till light [the] morning to urinate in/on/with wall

35 So David received of her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.

and to take: recieve David from hand: power her [obj] which to come (in): bring to/for him and to/for her to say to ascend: rise to/for peace to/for house: home your to see: behold! to hear: obey in/on/with voice your and to lift: kindness face: kindness your

36 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 drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

and to come (in): come Abigail to(wards) Nabal and behold to/for him feast in/on/with house: home his like/as feast [the] king and heart Nabal be pleasing upon him and he/she/it drunken till much and not to tell to/for him word: thing small and great: large till light [the] morning

37 And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became [as] a stone.

and to be in/on/with morning in/on/with to come out: come [the] wine from Nabal and to tell to/for him woman: wife his [obj] [the] word: thing [the] these and to die heart his in/on/with entrails: among his and he/she/it to be to/for stone

38 And it came to pass in about ten days that Jehovah smote Nabal, and he died.

and to be like/as ten [the] day and to strike LORD [obj] Nabal and to die

39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; but Jehovah has returned Nabal's evil upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her as his wife.

and to hear: hear David for to die Nabal and to say to bless LORD which to contend [obj] strife reproach my from hand: power Nabal and [obj] servant/slave his to withhold from distress: evil and [obj] distress: evil Nabal to return: return LORD in/on/with head his and to send: depart David and to speak: speak in/on/with Abigail to/for to take: marry her to/for him to/for woman: wife

40 And the servants of David came to Abigail to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to thee, to take thee as his wife.

and to come (in): come servant/slave David to(wards) Abigail [the] Carmel [to] and to speak: speak to(wards) her to/for to say David to send: depart us to(wards) you to/for to take: marry you to/for him to/for woman: wife

41 And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thy handmaid be a bondwoman to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

and to arise: rise and to bow face land: soil [to] and to say behold maidservant your to/for maidservant to/for to wash: wash foot servant/slave lord my

42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

and to hasten and to arise: rise Abigail and to ride upon [the] donkey and five maiden her [the] to go: follow to/for foot her and to go: follow after messenger David and to be to/for him to/for woman: wife

43 David had also taken Ahinoam of Jizreel; and they became, even both of them, his wives.

and [obj] Ahinoam to take: marry David from Jezreel and to be also two their to/for him to/for woman: wife

44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

and Saul to give: give(marriage) [obj] Michal daughter his woman: wife David to/for Palti son: child Laish which from Gallim