{"id":7909,"date":"2022-09-24T02:20:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T07:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-samuel-2536\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T02:20:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T07:20:01","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-samuel-2536","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-samuel-2536\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 25:36"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal&#8217;s heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> 36 38. Nabal&rsquo;s death<\/p>\n<p><strong> 36<\/strong>. <em> a feast  like the feast of a king<\/em> ] His shearing-revel (cp. <span class='bible'>2Sa 13:23<\/span>) was on a scale of regal luxury.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>Like the feast of a king; <\/B>as the manner was upon those solemn occasions. Sordid covetousness and vain prodigality were met together in him. <\/P> <P><B>She told him nothing; <\/B>he being then incapable of admonition, his reason and conscience being both asleep. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>36. he held a feast in his house,like the feast of a king<\/B>The sheep-shearing season was always avery joyous occasion. Masters usually entertained their shepherds;and even Nabal, though of a most niggardly disposition, preparedfestivities on a scale of sumptuous liberality. The modern Arabscelebrate the season with similar hilarity.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And Abigail came to Nabal<\/strong>,&#8230;. Having sped with David, and taken her leave of him, she returned home to her husband Nabal:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king<\/strong>; both for the number of dishes on his table and of guests at it though only on the account of sheep shearing; but very probably there were others that were invited to this entertainment besides the shearers; covetous men are generally very profuse when they make feasts:<\/p>\n<p><strong>and Nabal&#8217;s heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken<\/strong>: which was a very ill example for the master of the feast to set, and was one instance among others of his folly, and of his conduct answering to his name:<\/p>\n<p><strong>wherefore she told him nothing less or more until the morning light<\/strong>; where she had been, and what she had been about, the danger that he and the whole family were in through his rude and churlish behaviour towards David and his men, and how she had prevented it by a timely application to David, meeting him when in full march, and in a great passion, and with a firm resolution to destroy him and his; but finding Nabal in such a condition, bereaved of his reason, and incapable of attending to what she should say, said not one word about it till the next morning.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLPADDING=\"1\" CELLSPACING=\"0\"> <TR> <TD> <P ALIGN=\"LEFT\" STYLE=\"background: transparent;border: none;padding: 0in;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none\"> <span style='font-size:1.25em;line-height:1em'><I><SPAN STYLE=\"background: transparent\"><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">David Marries Abigail.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/I><\/span><\/P> <\/TD> <TD> <P ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" STYLE=\"background: transparent;border: none;padding: 0in\"> <SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"><FONT SIZE=\"1\" STYLE=\"font-size: 8pt\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-style: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-weight: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"background: transparent\"><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">B. C.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-style: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-weight: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"background: transparent\"><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"> 1057.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR>  <\/TABLE> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal&#8217;s heart <I>was<\/I> merry within him, for he <I>was<\/I> very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. &nbsp; 37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became <I>as<\/I> a stone. &nbsp; 38 And it came to pass about ten days <I>after,<\/I> that the <B>LORD<\/B> smote Nabal, that he died. &nbsp; 39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed <I>be<\/I> the <B>LORD<\/B>, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the <B>LORD<\/B> hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. &nbsp; 40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife. &nbsp; 41 And she arose, and bowed herself on <I>her<\/I> face to the earth, and said, Behold, <I>let<\/I> thine handmaid <I>be<\/I> a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. &nbsp; 42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. &nbsp; 43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. &nbsp; 44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David&#8217;s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which <I>was<\/I> of Gallim.<\/P> <P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We are now to attend Nabal&#8217;s funeral and Abigail&#8217;s wedding.<\/P> <P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I. Nabal&#8217;s funeral. The apostle speaks of some that were <I>twice dead,<\/I><span class='bible'><I> Jude 12<\/I><\/span>. We have hare Nabal <I>thrice<\/I> dead, though but just now wonderfully rescued from the sword of David and delivered from so great a death; for the preservations of wicked men are but reservations for some further sorer strokes of divine wrath. Here is,<\/P> <P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1. <I>Nabal dead drunk,<\/I><span class='_0000ff'><I><U><span class='bible'> v.<\/span><span class='bible'> 36<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. Abigail came home, and, it should seem, he had so many people and so much plenty about him that he neither missed her nor the provisions she took to David; but she found him in the midst of his jollity, little thinking how near he was to ruin by one whom he had foolishly made his enemy. Sinners are often most secure when they are most in danger and destruction is at the door. Observe, (1.) How extravagant he was in the entertainment of his company: <I>He held a feast like the feast of a king,<\/I> so magnificent and abundant, though his guests were but his sheep-shearers. This abundance might have been allowed if he had considered what God gave him his estate for, not to look great with, but to do good with. It is very common for those that are most niggardly in any act of piety or charity to be most profuse in gratifying a vain humour or a base lust. A mite is grudged to God and his poor; but, to make a <I>fair show in the flesh, gold is lavished out of the bag.<\/I> If Nabal had not answered to his name, he would never have been thus secure and jovial, till he had enquired whether he was safe from David&#8217;s resentments; but (as bishop Hall observes) thus foolish are carnal men, that give themselves over to their pleasures before they have taken any care to make their peace with God. (2.) How sottish he was in the indulgence of his own brutish appetite: <I>He was very drunk,<\/I> a sign he was <I>Nabal, a fool,<\/I> that could not use his plenty without abusing it, could not be pleasant with his friends without making a beast of himself. There is not a surer sign that a man has but little wisdom, nor a surer way to ruin the little he has, than drinking to excess. Nabal, that never thought he could bestow too little in charity, never thought he could bestow too much in luxury. Abigail, finding him in this condition (and probably those about him little better, when the master of the feast set them so bad an example), had enough to do to set the disordered house to-rights a little, but told Nabal nothing of what she had done with reference to David, nothing of his folly in provoking David, of his danger or of his deliverance, for, being drunk, he was as incapable to hear reason as he was to speak it. To give good advice to those that are in drink is to <I>cast pearls before swine;<\/I> it is better to stay till they are sober.<\/P> <P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2. Nabal again dead with melancholy, <span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 37<\/span>. Next morning, when he had come to himself a little, his wife told him how near to destruction he had brought himself and his family by his own rudeness, and with what difficulty she had interposed to prevent it; and, upon this, <I>his heart died within him and he became as a stone.<\/I> Some suggest that the expense of the satisfaction made to David, by the present Abigail brought him, broke his heart: it seems rather that the apprehension he now had of the danger he had narrowly escaped put him into a consternation, and seized his spirits so that he could not recover it. He grew sullen, and said little, ashamed of his own folly, put out of countenance by his wife&#8217;s wisdom. How is he changed! His heart over-night merry with wine, next morning heavy as a stone; so deceitful are carnal pleasures, so transient the laughter of the fool. <I>The end of that mirth is heaviness.<\/I> Drunkards are sometimes sad when they reflect upon their own folly. Joy in God makes the heart always light. Abigail could never, by her wise reasonings, bring Nabal to repentance; but now, by her faithful reproof, she brings him to despair.<\/P> <P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3. Nabal, at last, dead indeed: <I>About ten days after,<\/I> when he had been kept so long under this pressure and pain, <I>the Lord smote him that he died<\/I> (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 38<\/span>), and, it should seem, he never held up his head; it is just with God (says bishop Hall) that those who live without grace should die without comfort, nor can we expect better while we go on in our sins. Here is no lamentation made for Nabal. He departed without being lamented. Every one wished that the country might never sustain a greater loss. <I>David,<\/I> when he heard the news of his death, <I>gave God thanks<\/I> for it, <span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 39<\/span>. He blessed God, (1.) That he had kept him from killing him: <I>Blessed be the lord, who hath kept his servant from evil.<\/I> He rejoices that Nabal died a natural death and not by his hand. We should take all occasions to mention and magnify God&#8217;s goodness to us in keeping us from sin. (2.) That he had taken the work into his own hands, and had vindicated David&#8217;s honour, and not suffered him to go unpunished who had been abusive to him; hereby his interest would be confirmed, and all would stand in awe of him, as one for whom God fought. (3.) That he had thereby encouraged him and all others to commit their cause to God, when they are in any way injured, with an assurance that, in his own time, he will redress their wrongs if they sit still and leave the matter to him.<\/P> <P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; II. Abigail&#8217;s wedding. David was so charmed with the beauty of her person, and the uncommon prudence of her conduct and address, that, as soon as was convenient, after he heard she was a widow, he informed her of his attachment to her (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 39<\/span>), not doubting but that she who approved herself so good a wife to so bad a husband as Nabal would much more make a good wife to him, and having taken notice of her respect to him and her confidence of his coming to the throne. 1. He courted by proxy, his affairs, perhaps, not permitting him to come himself. 2. She received the address with great modesty and humility (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 41<\/span>), reckoning herself unworthy of the honour, yet having such a respect for him that she would gladly be one of the poorest servants of his family, to wash the feet of the other servants. None so fit to be preferred as those that can thus humble themselves. 3. She agreed to the proposal, went with his messenger, took a retinue with her agreeable to her quality, and <I>she became his wife,<\/I><span class='_0000ff'><I><U><span class='bible'> v.<\/span><span class='bible'> 42<\/span><\/U><\/I><\/span>. She did not upbraid him with his present distresses, and ask him how he could maintain her, but valued him, (1.) Because she knew he was a very good man. (2.) Because she believed he would, in due time, be a very great man. She married him in faith, not questioning but that, though now he had not a house of his own that he durst bring her to, yet God&#8217;s promise go him would at length be fulfilled. Thus those who join themselves to Christ must be willing now to suffer with him, believing that hereafter they shall reign with him.<\/P> <P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <I>Lastly,<\/I> On this occasion we have some account of David&#8217;s wives. 1. One that he had lost before he married Abigail, Michal, Saul&#8217;s daughter, his first, and the wife of his youth, to whom he would have been constant if she would have been so to him, but Saul had given her to another (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 44<\/span>), in token of his displeasure against him and disclaiming the relation of a father-in-law to him. 2. Another that he married besides Abigail (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 43<\/span>), and, as should seem, before her, for she is named first, <span class='bible'><I>ch.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> xxvii. 3<\/span>. David was carried away by the corrupt custom of those times; but from the beginning it was not so, nor is it so now that Messias has come, and the times of reformation, <span class='bible'>Mat 19:4<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mat 19:5<\/span>. Perhaps Saul&#8217;s defrauding David of his only rightful wife was the occasion of his running into this irregularity; for, when the knot of conjugal affection is once loosed, it is scarcely ever tied fast again. When David could not keep his first wife he thought that would excuse him if he did not keep to his second. But we deceive ourselves if we think to make others&#8217; faults a cloak for our own.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Matthew Henry&#8217;s Whole Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p style='margin-left:11.03em'><strong>Death of Nobel, vs. 36-44<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abigail returned from her .successful appeasement of David and found her husband living up to his name. He had thrown a great feast like a king and got himself quite drunk. Therefore Abigail did not tell him how near he had been to death during his party. Next morning, however, she did tell him, and he was so shocked that he suffered a paralyzing stroke. He lived for ten days and died.<\/p>\n<p>The Scriptures record that the Lord smote Nabal, and when David heard that he had died he recognized that it was the stroke of the Lord which killed Nabal. He exclaimed, &#8220;Blessed be the Lord,&#8221; for he now knew that it is the Lord alone who has the right to revenge. Nabal was guilty of reproach against David, and the Lord had judged and avenged David for that, while bringing the evil results of Nabal&#8217;s debauchery and licentiousness on his head. David also realized that the Lord had kept him from wrongdoing by the intervention of Abigail, and blessed Him for it.<\/p>\n<p>David now sent his servants with a proposal to Abigail to become his wife. She received the proposal very humbly, bowing before the servants and expressed herself as being willing to become the handmaid and servant of David, if no more than to do the lowly task of washing the feet of David&#8217;s servants. So she took five of her damsels, rode on a donkey, and hastily came to David&#8217;s camp. And so she became David&#8217;s wife. David had also married a girl from Jezreel at some time, whose name was Ahinoam, who became the mother of his eldest son (<span class='bible'>2Sa 3:2<\/span>). Her home town, Jezreel, was in the north of Israel, in the tribe of Issachar. David&#8217;s first wife, Michal, had been married by Saul to a man named Phalti, of Gallim, a Benjamite town, north of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p><em>Significant lessons: <\/em>1) Those who are objects of good deeds ought to be willing to return favors when opportunity affords it; 2) death of the godly calls for the respect of those who survive them; 3) evil persons usually react according to their sinful character; 4) it is never wise to respond to insult in the heat of anger; 5) those who advise caution and save another from foolish actions are worthy great blessing and thankfulness; 6) God will always bring just retribution and vengeance on the guilty and does not need the sword of men to do it; 7) it is good when one is able to review events and acknowledge the hand of God in them.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(36) <strong>He held a feast in his house.<\/strong>This completes the picture of the wealthy sheep-master. The contrast between him and his wife, the high-minded and wise Abigail, is very striking. The husband, churlish, obstinate, a friend of Saul and the old disorderly state of things, haughty, unyielding, selfish, and indulging to excess in the coarse pleasures of the table, falling a victim in the end to his own untamed passions; the wifethe good angel of the household, as Stanley phrases itthoughtful, prudent, far-seeing, a patient listener, and an apt pupil evidently of the new masters of learning and culture in Israel, a beautiful example of the highest type of the devout Hebrew woman who during the long chequered story of the chosen race exercised so often a holy influence on the life of the people. Nabal may be taken as an extreme, though not an uncommon, example of the leading Israelites of the days <em>before <\/em>Samuel; Abigail as the representative of the nobler spirit among the higher classes <em>after <\/em>the spirit of Samuel had influenced the inhabitants of the land.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 36<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> A great feast in his house <\/strong> The continuation of the festival of his sheep-shearing, of which David had sought to share a part.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong> David Marries Abigail<strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 36. And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold,<\/strong> although he had been too stingy to share with David and his men, <strong> he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king,<\/strong> with all its luxury and sumptuousness; <strong> and Nabal&#8217;s heart was merry within him,<\/strong> on account of the rich feast, <strong> for he was very drunken,<\/strong> intoxicated to such a point that he was not aware of anything outside of his own pleasure; <strong> wherefore she told him nothing, less or more,<\/strong> not a word, <strong> until the morning light. <\/p>\n<p>v. 37. But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal,<\/strong> when he had become sober once more, <strong> and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone,<\/strong> struck with apoplexy, probably due to violent anger because his wife had presumed to deal with the hated David without consulting his authority. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 38. And it came to pass about ten days after that the Lord smote Nabal that he died,<\/strong> his death being a punishment for his ungodliness. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 39. And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept His servant from evil;<\/strong> it was clearly God&#8217;s judgment upon the insult offered him by Nabal and ever so much better than the revenge which he himself would have taken; <strong> for the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. <\/strong> To David it was like a case in law, in which the Lord had rendered the judicial decision. <strong> And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. <\/p>\n<p>v. 40. And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee to take thee to him to wife. <\/strong> It was the usual formal proposal. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 41. And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth,<\/strong> in the Oriental manner of deepest devotion, <strong> and said,<\/strong> with the same extreme formal humility, <strong> Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord,<\/strong> thus declaring herself willing, in consenting to the proposal, to perform the lowest service of the house-slaves. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 42. And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her,<\/strong> her usual train of servants; <strong> and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. <\/strong> The author now immediately supplies further information concerning David&#8217;s other domestic relations. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 43. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel,<\/strong> a city in the mountains of Judah; <strong> and they were also both of them his wives,<\/strong> in addition to Michal, <span class='bible'>1Sa 18:28<\/span>. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 44. But Saul had given Michal, his daughter, David&#8217;s wife, to Phalti, the son of Laish, which was of Gallim,<\/strong> a town between Gibeah and Jerusalem. Cf <span class='bible'>2Sa 3:14<\/span> ff. Note: What the believers do good to either friends or enemies is rewarded by God, both in time and in eternity. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> (36)  And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal&#8217;s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. (37) But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. (38) And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> The awful departure of Nabal, is enough in itself to strike terror to every unawakened, unregenerated soul. The Lord smote Nabal, it is said. The Holy Ghost hath not recorded anything more of this man. This is indeed more than enough to show the folly and madness of sin. How awful a death! Like another rich man we read of, whose last account is, that he died and was buried, and in hell he lifted up his eyes in torments. From such an end good Lord deliver us! <span class='bible'>Luk 16:22-23<\/span> .<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Hawker&#8217;s Poor Man&#8217;s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 1Sa 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal&rsquo;s heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 36. <strong> He held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king.<\/strong> ] We use to say, it is good going to a niggard&rsquo;s feast, for such do it but seldom, and then they usually lay on, measuring their cheer not by the necessity of nature, but by that which, greedy appetite appointeth. Oh, the gourmandise and excess of this age! It is hateful that peasants should expend as princes, &amp;c. The Great Turk entertaineth ambassadors with rice and mutton, and fair water out of the river &#8211; Adam&rsquo;s ale. <em> a<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> And Nabal&rsquo;s heart was merry within him.] When yet he was so near to a mischief. Carnal men give themselves over to pleasures, while there are deadly quarrels depending against them in heaven. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> For he was very drunken.<\/strong> ] And so had no consideration of the present danger; as neither had Belshazzar, Amnon, Elah. Drunkenness had robbed Nabal of himself, and laid a beast in his room. Abigail therefore said nothing to him for present, till he had slept out his drunkenness, which is, saith Augustine, <em> Flagitiorum omnium mater, radix criminum, culparum materia, origo vitiorum, turbatio capitis, subversio sensus, tempestas linguae, procella corporis, naufragium castitatis, b<\/em> &amp;c. That is, the mother of misdemeanour, the matter that ministereth all mischief, the root of wretchedness, the vent of vice, the subverter of the senses, the confounder of the capacity, raising a storm in the tongue, billows in the body, and shipwreck in the soul: the loss of time, the corrupter of conversation, the discredit of carriage, the infamy of honesty, the sink that swalloweth chastity, the infirmity whose physician is ignominy, and the madness whose medicine is misery. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em> a<\/em> <em> Turk. Hist.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em> b<\/em> August., <em> Ad Sacr.<\/em> Virg.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. <\/p>\n<p>feast = banquet or drinking feast. Compare 2Sa 13:28. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>a feast: 2Sa 13:23, Est 1:3-7, Luk 14:12 <\/p>\n<p>merry: 2Sa 13:28, 1Ki 20:16, Pro 20:1, Pro 23:29-35, Ecc 2:2, Ecc 2:3, Ecc 10:19, Isa 28:3, Isa 28:7, Isa 28:8, Jer 51:57, Dan 5:1-5, Nah 1:10, Hab 2:15, Hab 2:16, Luk 21:34, Rom 13:13, Eph 5:18, 1Th 5:7, 1Th 5:8 <\/p>\n<p>she told him: 1Sa 25:19, Psa 112:5, Mat 10:16, Eph 5:14 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Gen 21:8 &#8211; feast Gen 38:12 &#8211; in process of time Jdg 19:6 &#8211; let thine heart 1Sa 22:15 &#8211; less or more 1Sa 30:16 &#8211; eating 1Ki 16:9 &#8211; drinking 1Ki 20:12 &#8211; drinking Est 1:10 &#8211; the heart Job 15:21 &#8211; in prosperity Psa 73:7 &#8211; have Psa 92:7 &#8211; it is that Pro 17:19 &#8211; he that Pro 19:10 &#8211; Delight Pro 30:22 &#8211; a fool Ecc 7:4 &#8211; the heart Isa 5:14 &#8211; he that rejoiceth Isa 21:4 &#8211; the night Amo 6:4 &#8211; stretch themselves upon their couches Amo 8:10 &#8211; I will turn Mat 24:38 &#8211; they Luk 12:20 &#8211; God Luk 16:26 &#8211; between Luk 17:27 &#8211; General Rom 11:9 &#8211; their table Jam 5:5 &#8211; have lived<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal&#8217;s heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him {q} nothing, less or more, until the morning light.<\/p>\n<p>(q) For he had no reason either to consider, or to give thanks for this great benefit of deliverance.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">Nabal&rsquo;s response to the news of Abigail&rsquo;s appeal 25:36-38<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When she returned home, Abigail discovered that her foolish husband was drunk from celebrating. He was totally oblivious to his mortal danger. He was feasting rather than fasting. He was behaving like a king, the ultimate authority, rather than as a servant of the next king (cf. 1Sa 25:24). Here is another allusion to the similarity between Nabal and Saul who both viewed themselves proudly as kings. Pride was the root of Nabal&rsquo;s folly as well as Saul&rsquo;s folly, and it preceded destruction in both of their cases.<\/p>\n<p>Abigail wisely waited until morning before telling her husband what a close brush he had had with death. By then the wine had gone out of him. The writer made a clever play on words here. The Hebrew word for wineskin is <span style=\"font-style:italic\">nebel<\/span>. It is as though he was suggesting that Nabal was a <span style=\"font-style:italic\">nebel<\/span>. When the wine had gone out of him, he was nothing. The writer may even have been suggesting that all there was to Nabal was his bladder, his personal wineskin. David had earlier vowed, literally, that he would not leave anyone who urinated against the wall (i.e., any male) in Nabal&rsquo;s household alive (1Sa 25:22). The writer pictured Nabal in the most uncomplimentary terms.<\/p>\n<p>Nabal&rsquo;s heart died within him when he finally realized what a fool he had been. The Hebrews used the heart metaphorically to describe the seat of courage. No courage remained in him. Nabal further appears to have gone catatonic; when he realized what had happened, the shock immobilized him. Ten days later he died, perhaps of a stroke. The writer gave God the credit for terminating his life prematurely. Sometimes people who fail to respond to the will of God die prematurely (cf. ch. 31; Num 3:2; Num 16:32; Jos 7:25; 1Co 11:30; 1Jn 5:16).<\/p>\n<p>God struck Nabal dead for his pride and opposition to the Lord&rsquo;s anointed. God would do the same to Saul for the same reasons. Nabal&rsquo;s death undoubtedly encouraged David to believe that God would take vengeance on Saul. David&rsquo;s experiences with Nabal were a microcosm of all that he had been enduring for so long with Saul, another fool. Saul admitted he was a fool in 1Sa 26:21.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal&#8217;s heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. 36 38. 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