JUNE 23 – The Gift That Opens Doors
3-Year-Bible Reading: Proverbs 18:15–16; Psalm 72; 1 Samuel 25
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“An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.” — Proverbs 18:15, 16 (ESV)
“May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth! May desert tribes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust!” — Psalm 72:8–9 (ESV)
“But Abigail acted quickly and went to meet David with food and supplies. She humbled herself before him and spoke wise words, and he accepted her counsel.” — 1 Samuel 25:18, adapted from context (ESV)
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Ever felt like your talents or resources are too small to matter? Maybe you think you’re too young, inexperienced, or unnoticed to make a difference. Proverbs 18 reminds us that even small gifts—whether knowledge, skill, or a thoughtful gesture—can create opportunities and open doors. In Psalm 72, we see how wise and just leadership blesses others, showing that influence comes when we use what we have to serve well. And in 1 Samuel 25, Abigail used what she had—wisdom, courage, and resources—to prevent disaster and save lives. Her quick action and wise words changed the course of events and earned respect.
God often works through what we already have. It doesn’t matter if it feels small or ordinary; the right attitude, a humble heart, and willingness to act can make a big difference. The gifts, talents, and knowledge you have today are not just for you—they are tools to bless others and open doors for greater purpose.
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THINK ABOUT IT
1. Recognize Your Gifts: What are some abilities, skills, or resources God has given you that you might be underestimating (Proverbs 18:16)?
2. Use Wisely: Abigail’s story (1 Samuel 25) shows that timing and wisdom are key. How can you use your gifts to help others or influence a situation positively?
3. Serve with Impact: How can you apply your talents or resources in a way that honors God and benefits your school, family, or community (Psalm 72)?
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BOTTOM LINE
Even small gifts, when used wisely and humbly, can open doors and impact lives in powerful ways.
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PRAYER
Heavenly Father, thank You for the gifts, talents, and resources You have placed in my life. Help me to recognize them, use them wisely, and act with courage and humility. Teach me to bless others and open doors for Your purpose through what I have, trusting that You can multiply even the smallest efforts. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations
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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, June 23rd, The gift
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that opens doors.
Have you ever looked at someone
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else’s talent OR opportunity and
thought, I don’t have anything
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like that?
Maybe you’ve compared what you
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bring to what someone else
brings and walked away feeling
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like yours doesn’t measure up.
Too small, too ordinary, too
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unremarkable to make a real
difference.
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Here’s something I want you to
hear today.
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God doesn’t do ordinary the way
you’re thinking about it.
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Proverbs chapter 18, verse 15
says an intelligent heart
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acquires knowledge, and the ear
of the wise seeks knowledge.
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Wisdom starts with a posture, a
heart that stays curious, stays
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teachable, stays hungry to
learn.
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And then verse 16 adds this
remarkable promise.
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A man’s gift makes room for him
and brings him before the great.
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Your gift, whatever it is, has
the power to open doors that
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your resume, your connections,
or your social status never
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could.
Not because you’re impressive,
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but because God is strategic
with the abilities He places in
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people.
Look at Abigail in First Samuel
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chapter 25.
She didn’t have a title.
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She was married to a foolish,
harsh man named Nabel who had
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just insulted David and his men,
and David was on his way.
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With 400 soldiers to respond,
the situation was about to turn
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catastrophic, and Abigail
stepped in quickly.
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Wisely, she gathered food and
supplies, rode out to meet
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David, and spoke words of wisdom
that stopped David’s anger in
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its tracks.
She used what she had,
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resources, insight, courage, and
a quick mind, and saved her
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entire household.
She didn’t wait to be asked.
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She didn’t convince herself she
was too small or unqualified.
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She saw a need, assessed what
she had, and acted.
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And that action changed the
course of everything.
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Psalm 72 gives us a picture of
the kind of leadership and
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influence that truly blesses
others, one marked by justice,
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care for the vulnerable, and
wise use of authority.
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Verses 8 and 9 speak of dominion
that spreads blessing from sea
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to sea.
That’s not a picture of hoarding
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power for yourself.
It’s a picture of influence used
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to bring blessing to others.
Real influence always serves.
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So what does this mean for you?
It means the gifts you’ve been
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given, whether it’s away with
words, a musical ear, a gift for
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mathematics, a warm presence
that makes people feel seen, or
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the ability to organize and
lead.
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Those are not accidents.
They were placed in you
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intentionally by a God who has
purposes bigger than you can
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currently see.
The key is in the posture.
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Proverbs says wisdom seeks
knowledge.
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Abigail acted with humility and
speed.
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The gift alone isn’t enough.
It requires a heart willing to
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use it in service, willing to
act when the moment comes,
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willing to believe that God can
do something significant through
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something that feels small.
You are not too young.
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You are not too inexperienced.
You are not too ordinary.
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The right gift used at the right
moment, with the right heart,
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opens doors that no one else can
close.
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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for
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the specific gifts, abilities,
and resources you have placed in
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each of us.
Help us to stop comparing what
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we have to what others have and
instead to steward faithfully
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what you’ve given us.
Give us the wisdom to recognize
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opportunities, the courage to
act like Abigail, and the
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humility to use our gifts in
service rather than for show.
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Multiply even our smallest
efforts for your glory in Jesus
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name, Amen.
What if the night was never
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meant to be ruled by fear, but
covered by the presence and
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authority of God?
Command Your Night is a
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prophetic prayer script series
created for believers who want
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to pray with confidence before
sleep, stand firm in spiritual
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warfare and invite divine
covering over every hour of
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darkness.
These prayers help you quiet
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anxiety.
Guard your home, resist
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oppression, sanctify your
dreams, cover your family, and
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recognize sacred moments when
God may be calling you to
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intercede in the night watches.
From peaceful sleep to midnight
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breakthrough, this series gently
strengthens your faith and
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reminds you that no night season
is beyond God’s power,
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protection, and voice.
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with God in today’s three-year
Bible reading plan.
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Proverbs chapter 18 Verses 15 to
16 World English Bible The heart
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of the discerning gets
knowledge, the ear of the wise
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seeks knowledge.
A man’s gift makes room for him
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and brings him before great men.
Psalm Chapter 72 World English
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Bible God, give the king your
justice, your righteousness to
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the royal Son.
He will judge your people with
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righteousness and your poor with
justice.
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The mountains shall bring
prosperity to the people.
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The hills bring the fruit of
righteousness.
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He will judge the poor of the
people.
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He will Save the Children of the
needy and will break the
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oppressor in pieces.
They shall fear you while the
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sun endures, and as long as the
moon, throughout all
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generations.
He will come down like rain on
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the moon grass as showers that
water the earth.
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In his days the righteous shall
flourish and abundance of peace
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until the moon is no more.
He shall have dominion also,
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from sea to sea, from the river
to the ends of the earth.
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Those who dwell in the
wilderness shall bow before him.
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His enemies shall lick the dust.
The kings of Tarshish and of the
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islands will bring tribute.
The kings of Sheba and Seba
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shall offer gifts.
Yes, all kings shall fall down
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before him.
All nations shall serve him, for
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He will deliver the needy when
he cries, the poor who has no
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helper.
He will have pity on the poor
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and needy.
He will save the souls of the
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needy.
He will redeem their soul from
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oppression and violence.
Their blood will be precious in
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His sight.
They shall live and to Him shall
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be given of the gold of Sheba.
Men shall pray for him
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continually.
They shall bless him all day
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long.
Abundance of grain shall be
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throughout the land.
Its fruit sways like Lebanon.
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Let it flourish, thriving like
the grass of the field.
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His name endures forever.
His name continues as long as
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the sun.
Men shall be blessed by Him.
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All nations will call Him
blessed.
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Praise be to Yahweh God, the God
of Israel, who alone does
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marvelous deeds.
Blessed be His glorious name
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forever.
Let the whole earth be filled
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with His glory.
Amen and Amen.
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This ends the prayers by David
the son of Jesse.
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First Samuel Chapter 25 World
English Bible Samuel died and
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all Israel gathered themselves
together and mourned for him and
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buried him at his house at Rama.
Then David arose and went down
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to the wilderness of Perrin.
There was a man in Mound whose
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possessions were in Carmel, and
the man was very great.
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He had 3000 sheep and 1000 goats
and he was shearing his sheep in
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Carmel.
Now the name of the man was
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Nabel and the name of his wife
Abigail.
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This woman was intelligent and
had a beautiful face, but the
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man was surly and evil in his
doings.
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He was of the House of Caleb.
David heard in the wilderness
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that Nabel was shearing his
sheep.
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David sent 10 young men and
David said to the young men, go
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up to Carmel and go to Nabel and
greet him in my name.
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Tell him long life to you.
Peace be to you, peace be to
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your house, peace be to all that
you have now.
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I have heard that you have
shearers.
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Your shepherds have now been
with us and we didn’t harm them.
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Nothing was missing from them
all the time they were in
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Carmel.
Ask your young men and they will
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tell you.
Therefore, let the young men
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find favor in your eyes, for we
come on a good day.
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Please give whatever comes to
your hand to your servants and
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to your son David.
When David’s young men came,
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they spoke to Nabel all those
words in the name of David and
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waited.
Nabel answered David’s servants
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and said, Who is David?
Who is the son of Jesse?
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There are many servants who
break away from their masters
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these days.
Shall I then take my bread, my
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water, and my meat that I have
killed for my shearers, and give
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it to men who I don’t know where
they come from?
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So David’s young men turned on
their way and went back and came
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and told him all these words
David said to his men.
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Every man put on his sword,
every man put on his sword,
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David also put on his sword.
About 400 men followed David,
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and 200 stayed by the baggage.
But one of the young men told
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Abigail, Nabel’s wife, saying,
Behold, David sent messengers
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out of the wilderness to greet
our master, and he insulted
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them.
But the men were very good to
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us, and we were not harmed, and
we didn’t miss anything as long
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as we went with them when we
were in the fields.
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They were a wall to us both by
night and by day, all the while
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we were with them keeping the
sheep.
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Now therefore, know and consider
what you will do, For evil is
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determined against our master
and against all his house, for
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he is such a worthless fellow
that one can’t speak to him.
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Then Abigail hurried and took
200 loaves of bread, 2
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containers of wine, 5 sheep
ready dressed, 5 seas of parched
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grain, 100 clusters of raisins,
and 200 cakes of figs, and laid
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them on donkeys.
She said to her young men, go on
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before me, behold, I am coming
after you.
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But she didn’t tell her husband
Nabel, as she rode on her donkey
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and came down by the covert of
the mountain, that behold, David
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and his men came down toward
her, and she met them.
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Now David had said, surely in
vain.
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I have kept all that this fellow
has in the wilderness, so that
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nothing was missed of all that
pertained to him.
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He has returned me evil for
good.
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God do so to the enemies of
David, and more also if I leave
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of all that belongs to him by
the morning light so much as one
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who urinates on a wall.
When Abigail saw David, she
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hurried and got off her donkey
and fell before David on her
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face and bowed herself to the
ground.
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She fell at his feet and said,
On me, my Lord, on me.
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Be the blame.
Please let your servant speak in
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your ears.
Hear the words of your servant.
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Please don’t let my Lord pay
attention to this worthless
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fellow Nabel, for as his name
is, so is he.
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Nabel is his name, and folly is
with him.
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But I, your servant, didn’t see
my Lord’s young men whom you
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sent.
Now.
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Therefore, my Lord, as Yahweh
lives and as your soul lives,
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since Yahweh has withheld you
from blood guiltiness and from
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avenging yourself with your own
hand now, therefore let your
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enemies and those who seek evil
to My Lord be as navel.
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Now this present which Your
servant has brought to my Lord,
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let it be given to the young men
who follow.
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My Lord, please forgive the
trespass of Your servant, for
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Yahweh will certainly make My
Lord a sure house.
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Because My Lord fights Yahweh’s
battles, evil will not be found
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in you all your days.
Though men may rise up to pursue
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you and to seek your soul, yet
the soul of My Lord will be
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bound in the bundle of life with
Yahweh, your God.
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He will sling out the souls of
your enemies as from the hollow
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of a sling.
It will come to pass.
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When Yahweh has done to my Lord,
according to all the good that
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he has spoken concerning you and
has appointed you Prince over
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Israel, that this shall be no
grief to you, nor offense of
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heart to my Lord, either that
you have shed blood without
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cause, or that my Lord has
avenged himself.
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When Yahweh has dealt well with
my Lord, then remember your
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servant David said to Abigail,
Blessed is Yahweh, the God of
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Israel, who sent you today to
meet me.
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Blessed is your discretion, and
blessed are you who have kept me
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today from blood guiltiness and
from avenging myself with my own
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hand.
For indeed, as Yahweh the God of
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Israel lives, who has withheld
me from harming you.
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Unless you had hurried and come
to meet me, surely there
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wouldn’t have been left to Nabel
by the morning light so much as
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one who urinates on a wall.
So David received from her hand
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that which she had brought him.
Then he said to her, Go up in
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peace to your house.
Behold, I have listened to your
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voice and have granted your
request.
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Abigail came to Nabel, and
behold, he held a feast in his
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house, like the feast of a king.
Nabel’s heart was merry within
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him, for he was very drunk.
Therefore she told him nothing
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until the morning light.
In the morning when the wine had
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gone out of Nabel, his wife told
him these things and his heart
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died within him, and he became
as a stone.
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About 10 days later Yahweh
struck Nabel so that he died.
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When David heard that Nabel was
dead, he said, Blessed is
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Yahweh, who has pleaded the
cause of my reproach from the
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hand of Nabel and has kept back
his servant from evil.
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Yahweh has returned the evil
doing of Nabel on his own head.
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David sent and spoke concerning
Abigail to take her to himself
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as wife.
When David’s servants had come
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to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke
to her, saying, David has sent
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us to you to take you to him as
wife.
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She arose and bowed herself with
her face to the earth, and said,
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Behold, your servant is a
servant to wash the feet of the
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servants of my Lord.
Abigail hurried and arose and
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rode on a donkey with five
ladies of hers, who followed
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her, and she went after the
messengers of David and became
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his wife.
David also took Ahinome of
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Jezreel, and they both became
his wives.
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Now Saul had given Mikkel his
daughter David’s wife to Pulte,
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the son of Laish, who was of
Gallim.
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