Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 25:38

And it came to pass about ten days [after], that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.

38. the Lord smote Nabal ] His death was a divine judgment none the less that a partly natural cause may be assigned for it in his intemperance and passion. For “smote” comp. the use of the same word in ch. 1Sa 26:10, and 2Ch 13:20 (E. V. struck).

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

1Sa 25:38

And blessed be thy advice.

Good advice

I. It is well to be ready to take advice. The older we grow the more ready most of us are to be advised regarding our plans and purposes. We know better the wisdom of being so. It is generally the young who scorn advice. They are apt to think they know everything that needs to be known.

II. It is important to go to the best sources for advice. If you were in doubt as to your way in London, the best plan would be to ask a policeman. He is generally an authority on such a matter, and would be sure to give you correct and civil instructions. When people are in ill-health they go to the doctor for medical advice, and in any legal difficulty they naturally apply to the lawyer. It is worse than useless to get advice from the incompetent, that may only land you in deeper difficulty, or more hopeless trouble. With the well advised is Wisdom, says Solomon. It would have been a good thing for his son Rehoboam had he paid attention to that. How much it means to have a good adviser to go to, and especially in the earlier years of life! Everyone thinks with pity of any young girl left motherless, who grows up without that counsel and guidance and sympathy so much needed in her young life, and which none so well as a mother can give. And now, if not then, we can heartily use Davids words, and say, Blessed be thy advice.

III. Above all, in spiritual things, we need advice. We cant devise and scheme and succeed there all by ourselves. It is often said in the story of Davids life, that he inquired of the Lord. (Christian World Pulpit.)

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Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell

God either inflicted some other stroke or disease upon him, or increased his grief and fear to such a height as killed him.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

And it came to pass, about ten days [after],…. After he had lain in this stupid and senseless manner for ten days:

that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died; with some disease or increased the grief of his heart, and the fears of his mind that he died therewith.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(38) The Lord smote Nabal.That is to say, that after ten days had passed the Lord put an end to the base life by a second apoplectic stroke. Although the death was a sequel to the selfishness, the passion, and the intemperance, it does not appear that anything more than the operation of natural causes occasioned the end here. In the language of these old divinely inspired writers, disease and sickness are often spoken of as the special shafts aimed by the Most High, as in fact they are.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

38. The Lord smote Nabal With another stroke, similar in nature to the first, but much more terrible, and which resulted in putting an end to his life. Interpreters have generally, and very naturally, supposed it to have been a stroke of apoplexy.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1Sa 25:38 And it came to pass about ten days [after], that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.

Ver. 38. About ten days after. ] All which time he lay like a block in his bed, without repentance or confidence in God; but condemned of his own conscience, he went to his place without noise. Let this be a warning to drunkards.

The Lord smote Nabal, that he died. ] Deadly diseases are God’s strokes; and especially if they be sudden, and soon make an end of men. Hippocrates calleth the pestilence , the divine disease; and another is called morbus sacer.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)