On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head." Then David sent word to Abigail, asking for her in marriage. Cross References 1 Samuel 24:15 May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand." 1 Samuel 25:26 Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal. 1 Samuel 25:34 Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light." 1 Samuel 25:40 When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, "David has sent us to take you as his wife." 2 Samuel 22:48 the God who avenges me and brings down nations beneath me, 1 Kings 2:44 The king also said, "You know in your heart all the evil that you did to my father David. Therefore the LORD will bring your evil back upon your head. Proverbs 22:23 for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them. Treasury of Scripture And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept his servant from evil: for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. Blessed 1 Samuel 25:32 Judges 5:2 2 Samuel 22:47-49 pleaded Proverbs 22:23 Lamentations 3:58-60 Micah 7:9 kept his servant 1 Samuel 25:26,34 Hosea 2:6,7 2 Corinthians 13:7 hath returned 2 Samuel 3:28,29 1 Kings 2:44 Esther 7:10 Proverbs 18:22 Proverbs 19:14 Proverbs 31:10,30 |