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35 So David [a]accepted what she had brought to him and said to her, “Go up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to you and have [b]granted your request.”

36 Then Abigail came to Nabal, and he was holding a feast in his house [for the shearers], like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s [c]mood was joyous because he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light. 37 But in the morning, when [d]Nabal was sober, and his wife told him these things, his [e]heart died within him and he became [paralyzed and helpless] like a stone.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:35 Lit took from her hand.
  2. 1 Samuel 25:35 Lit lifted up your face, an idiom used in various positive ways, probably based on the idea of a superior person permitting someone to look him in the eye.
  3. 1 Samuel 25:36 Lit heart.
  4. 1 Samuel 25:37 Lit the wine had gone out of.
  5. 1 Samuel 25:37 Nabal probably suffered a stroke.

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