1 Samuel 25
1 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
Then Samuel died, and all of Israel gathered together, and they mourned him. And they buried him at his house in Ramah. And David, rising up, descended to the desert of Paran.
2 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
Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possessions were at Carmel. And this man was exceedingly great. And three thousand sheep, and one thousand goats were his. And it happened that he was shearing his sheep at Carmel.
3 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 *QK)
Now the name of this man was Nabal. And the name of his wife was Abigail. And she was a very prudent and beautiful woman. But her husband was hard-hearted, and very wicked, and malicious. And he was of the stock of Caleb.
4 and to hear: hear David in/on/with wilderness for to shear Nabal [obj] flock his
Therefore, when David, in the desert, had heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep,
5 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
he sent ten young men, and he said to them: “Ascend to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name peacefully.
6 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
And you shall say: ‘Peace be to my brothers and to you, and peace to your house, and peace to whatever you have.
7 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
I have heard that your shepherds, who were with us in the desert, were shearing. We have never troubled them, nor was anything from the flock missing to them at any time, during the entire time that they have been with us in Carmel.
8 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
Question your servants, and they will tell you. Now therefore, may your servants find favor in your eyes. For we have arrived on a good day. Whatever your hand will find, give it to your servants and to your son David.’”
9 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
And when the servants of David had arrived, they spoke to Nabal all these words in the name of David. And then they were silent.
10 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
But Nabal, responding to the servants of David, said: “Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today, servants who are fleeing from their lords are increasing.
11 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.)
Therefore, shall I take my bread, and my water, and the meat of the cattle that I have slain for my shearers, and give it to men, when I do not know where they are from?”
12 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
And so the servants of David traveled back along their way. And returning, they went and reported to him all the words that he had said.
13 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
Then David said to his servants, “Let each one gird his sword.” And each one girded his sword. And David also girded his sword. And about four hundred men followed David. But two hundred remained behind with the supplies.
14 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
Then it was reported to Abigail, the wife of Nabal, by one of his servants, saying: “Behold, David has sent messengers from the desert, so that they might speak kindly to our lord. But he turned them away.
15 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
These men were good enough to us, and were not troublesome. Neither did we ever lose anything, during the entire time that we conversed with them in the desert.
16 wall to be upon us also night also by day all day to be we with them to pasture [the] flock
They were a wall to us, as much in the night as in the day, during all the days that we were with them, pasturing the sheep.
17 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
For this reason, consider and realize what you should do. For evil has been decided against your husband and against your house. And he is a son of Belial, so that no one is able to speak to him.”
18 and to hasten (Abigail *Qk) and to take: take hundred food: bread and two bag wine and five flock (to make *Qk) and five seah roasted and hundred cluster and hundred fig cake and to set: put upon [the] donkey
And so Abigail hurried, and she took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five cooked sheep, and five measures of cooked grain, and one hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred masses of dried figs, and she set them upon donkeys.
19 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
And she said to her servants: “Go before me. Behold, I will follow after your back.” But she did not reveal it to her husband, Nabal.
20 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
And when she had climbed on a donkey, and was descending to the base of the mountain, David and his men were descending to meet her. And she met them.
21 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
And David said: “Truly, in vain have I preserved all that was his in the wilderness, so that nothing perished out of all that belonged to him. And he has repaid evil to me for good.
22 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
May God do these things, by the enemies of David, and may he add these other things, if I leave behind until morning, out of all that belongs to him, anything that urinates against a wall.”
23 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
Then, when Abigail had seen David, she hurried and descended from the donkey. And she fell upon her face before David, and she reverenced on the ground.
24 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
And she fell at his feet, and she said: “May this iniquity be upon me, my lord. I beg you, let your handmaid speak to your ears, and listen to the words of your servant.
25 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
Let not my lord, the king, I beseech you, set his heart upon this iniquitous man, Nabal. For in accord with his name, he is senseless, and foolishness is with him. But I, your handmaid, did not see your servants, my lord, whom you had sent.
26 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
Now therefore, my lord, as your soul lives, and as the Lord lives, who has kept your hand to yourself, and has prevented you from coming to blood: now, let your enemies be like Nabal, and like all those who are seeking evil for my lord.
27 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
Because of this, accept this blessing, which your handmaid has brought to you, my lord. And give it to the young men who follow you, my lord.
28 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
Forgive the iniquity of your handmaid. For the Lord will surely make for you, my lord, a faithful house, because you, my lord, fight the battles of the Lord. Therefore, let no evil be found in you all the days of your life.
29 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
For if a man, at any time, will rise up, pursuing you and seeking your life, the life of my lord will be preserved, as if in the sheave of the living, with the Lord your God. But the lives of your enemies will be spun around, as if with the force of a whirling sling.
30 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
Therefore, when the Lord will have done for you, my lord, all the good that he has spoken about you, and when he will have appointed you as leader over Israel,
31 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
this will not be for you a regret or a scruple of the heart, my lord, that you had shed innocent blood, or had taken revenge for yourself. And when the Lord will have done well for my lord, you shall remember your handmaid.”
32 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
And David said to Abigail: “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me. And blessed is your eloquence.
33 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
And blessed are you, who prevented me today from going to blood, and from taking revenge for myself with my own hand.
34 and but alive LORD God Israel which to withhold me from be evil [obj] you for unless to hasten (and to come (in): come *Qk) 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
But instead, as the Lord God of Israel lives, he has prevented me from doing evil to you. But if you had not come quickly to meet me, there would not have been left to Nabal by the morning light, anything that urinates against a wall.”
35 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
Then David received from her hand all that she had brought to him. And he said to her: “Go in peace to your own house. Behold, I have heeded your voice, and I have honored your face.”
36 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
Then Abigail went to Nabal. And behold, he was holding a feast for himself in his house, like the feast of a king. And the heart of Nabal was cheerful. For he was greatly inebriated. And she did not reveal a word to him, small or great, until morning.
37 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
Then, at first light, when Nabal had digested his wine, his wife revealed to him these words, and his heart died within himself, and he became like a stone.
38 and to be like/as ten [the] day and to strike LORD [obj] Nabal and to die
And after ten days had passed, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
39 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
And when David had heard that Nabal was dead, he said: “Blessed is the Lord, who has judged the case of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and who has preserved his servant from evil. And the Lord has repaid the malice of Nabal upon his own head.” Then David sent and he spoke with Abigail, so that he might take her to himself as wife.
40 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
And David’s servants went to Abigail at Carmel, and they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, so that he might take you to himself as wife.”
41 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
And rising up, she reverenced prone on the ground, and she said, “Behold, let your servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
42 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
And Abigail rose up and hurried, and she climbed upon a donkey, and five girls went with her, her attendants. And she followed the messengers of David, and she became his wife.
43 and [obj] Ahinoam to take: marry David from Jezreel and to be also two their to/for him to/for woman: wife
Moreover, David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel. And both of them were his wives.
44 and Saul to give: give(marriage) [obj] Michal daughter his woman: wife David to/for Palti son: child Laish which from Gallim
Then Saul gave his daughter Michal, the wife of David, to Palti, the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
