Abigail Ab'igail Already Asses Bottles Bread Bunches Cakes Clusters Cooking Corn Donkeys Dressed Dry Fig-cakes Figs Full Grain Grapes Haste Hasteth Hundred Hurried Jugs Laid Loaded Loaves Lost Measures Parcels Parched Prepared Pressed Quickly Raisin-cakes Raisins Ready Roasted Seahs Setteth Sheep Skin-bottles Skins Taketh Wine
25:18 Abigail took, and c. - This she did without his leave, because it was a case of apparent necessity, for the preservation of herself, and husband, and all the family from imminent ruin. And surely, that necessity which dispenseth with God's positive commands, might dispense with the husband's right, in this case. Bottles - Casks or rundlets.
25:18-31 By a present Abigail atoned for Nabal's denial of David's request. Her behaviour was very submissive. Yielding pacifies great offences. She puts herself in the place of a penitent, and of a petitioner. She could not excuse her husband's conduct. She depends not upon her own reasonings, but on God's grace, to soften David, and expects that grace would work powerfully. She says that it was below him to take vengeance on so weak and despicable an enemy as Nabal, who, as he would do him no kindness, so he could do him no hurt. She foretells the glorious end of David's present troubles. God will preserve thy life; therefore it becomes not thee unjustly and unnecessarily to take away the lives of any, especially of the people of thy God and Saviour. Abigail keeps this argument for the last, as very powerful with so good a man; that the less he indulged his passion, the more he consulted his peace and the repose of his own conscience. Many have done that in a heat, which they have a thousand times wished undone again. The sweetness of revenge is soon turned into bitterness. When tempted to sin, we should consider how it will appear when we think upon it afterwards.
Abigail Asses Bottles Cakes Clusters Corn Donkeys Dressed Haste Hundred Loaves Measures Parched Raisins Ready Sheep Wine
Abigail Asses Bottles Cakes Clusters Corn Donkeys Dressed Haste Hundred Loaves Measures Parched Raisins Ready Sheep Wine
