1 Samuel 24:20   (Read all of 1 Samuel 24)

I know that you will surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands.

1 Samuel 24:21   (Read all of 1 Samuel 24)

Now swear to me by the Lord that you will not kill off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father's family."

1 Samuel 25:5   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

So he sent ten young men and said to them, "Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name.

1 Samuel 25:6   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

Say to him: 'Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!

1 Samuel 25:7   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

" 'Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing.

1 Samuel 25:8   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.' "

1 Samuel 25:13   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

David said to his men, "Each of you strap on your sword!" So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

1 Samuel 25:17   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him."

1 Samuel 25:19   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

Then she told her servants, "Go on ahead; I'll follow you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:24   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

She fell at his feet and said: "Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.

1 Samuel 25:25   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name-his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.

1 Samuel 25:26   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:27   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.

1 Samuel 25:28   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

"Please forgive your servant's presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord's battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live.

1 Samuel 25:29   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.

1 Samuel 25:31   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant."

1 Samuel 25:32   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

David said to Abigail, "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.

1 Samuel 25:33   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.

1 Samuel 25:34   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak."

1 Samuel 25:35   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, "Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request."

1 Samuel 25:40   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, "David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife."

1 Samuel 25:41   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, "I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord's servants."

1 Samuel 26:6   (Read all of 1 Samuel 26)

David then asked Ahimelek the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, "Who will go down into the camp with me to Saul?" "I'll go with you," said Abishai.

1 Samuel 26:8   (Read all of 1 Samuel 26)

Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won't strike him twice."