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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 greeta* him in my name:
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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.
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And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurtb them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
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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.
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And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.c
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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.
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Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my fleshd that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
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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.
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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 railede on them.
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But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt,f neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
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They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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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.
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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.
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And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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,g and hear the words of thine handmaid.
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Let not my lord, I pray thee, regardh 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.
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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 avengingi 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 now this blessingj which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow* my lord.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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That this shall be no griefk unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
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And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
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And 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.
La Biblia de las Américas (Español) BLA
1 Samuel 25:5
Entonces David envió diez jóvenes, y les dijo: Subid a Carmel, visitad a Nabal y saludadle en mi nombre;
English Standard Version ESV
1 Samuel 25:5
So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.
La Biblia del Jubileo 2000 JBS
1 Samuel 25:5
Entonces envió David diez jóvenes, y les dijo: Subid al Carmelo, e id a Nabal, y saludadle en mi nombre
New King James Version NKJV
1 Samuel 25:5
David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.
Nueva Traducción Viviente NTV
1 Samuel 25:5
envió a diez de sus hombres jóvenes a Carmelo con el siguiente mensaje para Nabal:
Nueva Versión Internacional NVI
1 Samuel 25:5
Envió entonces diez de sus hombres con este encargo: «Vayan a Carmel para llevarle a Nabal un saludo de mi parte.
La Biblia Reina-Valera (Español) RVR
1 Samuel 25:5
Entonces envió David diez criados, y díjoles: Subid al Carmelo, é id á Nabal, y saludadle en mi nombre.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569) (Español) SEV
1 Samuel 25:5
Entonces envió David diez criados, y les dijo: Subid al Carmelo, e id a Nabal, y saludadle en mi nombre.
Herramientas de Estudio para 1 Samuel 25:5-35
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