NOW THEREFORE KNOW AND CONSIDER WHAT THOU WILT DO

1 SAMUEL 25:15-35

BUT THE MEN WERE VERY 

GOOD UNTO US, AND WE 

WERE NOT HURT, 

NEITHER 

MISSED WE ANY THING, 

AS LONG AS WE WERE 

CONVERSANT WITH THEM, 

WHEN WE WERE IN THE FIELDS: 

THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US 

BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY, 

ALL THE WHILE WE WERE 

WITH THEM KEEPING THE SHEEP. 

NOW THEREFORE 

KNOW AND CONSIDER WHAT 

THOU WILT DO; 

FOR EVIL IS DETERMINED 

AGAINST OUR MASTER, 
AND AGAINST ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD: 

FOR HE IS SUCH A SON OF BELIAL, 

THAT A MAN CANNOT SPEAK TO HIM.  

THEN ABIGAIL MADE HASTE, 

AND TOOK TWO HUNDRED LOAVES, 

AND TWO BOTTLES OF WINE, 

AND FIVE SHEEP READY DRESSED,

AND FIVE MEASURES OF PARCHED 

CORN, AND AN HUNDRED 

CLUSTERS OF RAISINS, 

AND TWO HUNDRED CAKES OF FIGS,  

AND LAID THEM ON ASSES. 

AND SHE SAID UNTO HER SERVANTS, 

GO ON BEFORE ME; BEHOLD, 

I COME AFTER YOU. 

BUT SHE TOLD NOT 

HER HUSBAND NABAL. 

AND IT WAS SO, AS SHE 

RODE ON THE ASS, THAT 

SHE CAME DOWN BY 

THE COVERT ON THE HILL,  

AND, BEHOLD, DAVID AND HIS 

MEN CAME DOWN AGAINST HER; 

AND SHE MET THEM. 

NOW DAVID HAD SAID, 

SURELY IN VAIN HAVE 

I KEPT ALL THAT THIS FELLOW 

HATH IN THE WILDERNESS,  

SO THAT NOTHING WAS 

MISSED OF ALL THAT 

PERTAINED UNTO HIM: 

AND HE HATH REQUITED 

ME EVIL FOR GOOD. 
SO AND MORE ALSO DO GOD UNTO 

THE ENEMIES OF DAVID, 

IF I LEAVE OF ALL THAT PERTAIN 

TO HIM BY THE MORNING 

LIGHT ANY THAT PISSETH 

AGAINST THE WALL.
AND WHEN ABIGAIL SAW DAVID, 

SHE HASTED, 

AND 

LIGHTED OFF THE ASS, 

AND 

FELL BEFORE DAVID ON HER FACE, 

AND 

BOWED HERSELF TO THE GROUND, 

AND FELL AT HIS FEET, 

AND SAID, UPON ME, 

MY LORD, 

UPON ME 

LET THIS INIQUITY BE: 

AND 

LET THINE HANDMAID, 

I PRAY THEE, 

SPEAK IN THINE AUDIENCE, 

AND 

HEAR THE WORDS

OF THINE HANDMAID. 

LET NOT MY LORD, I PRAY THEE, 

REGARD THIS MAN OF BELIAL, 

EVEN NABAL: 

FOR AS HIS NAME IS, 

SO IS HE; 

NABAL IS HIS NAME, 

AND FOLLY IS WITH HIM: 

BUT I THINE HANDMAID SAW 

NOT THE YOUNG MEN OF MY LORD, 

WHOM THOU DIDST SEND. 

NOW THEREFORE, MY LORD, 

AS THE LORD LIVETH, 

AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH, 

SEEING THE LORD HATH 

WITHHOLDEN THEE FROM 

COMING TO SHED BLOOD, 
AND FROM AVENGING THYSELF 

WITH THINE OWN HAND, 

 NOW LET THINE ENEMIES, 
AND THEY THAT SEEK EVIL 

TO MY LORD, BE AS NABAL.  

FOR IN VERY DEED, 

AS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL LIVETH, 

WHICH HATH KEPT ME 

BACK FROM HURTING THEE, 
EXCEPT THOU HADST 

HASTED AND COME TO MEET ME, 

SURELY THERE HAD NOT BEEN 

LEFT UNTO NABAL 

BY THE MORNING LIGHT 

ANY THAT PISSETH AGAINST 

THE WALL. 

SO DAVID RECEIVED OF HER HAND 

THAT WHICH SHE HAD 

BROUGHT HIM, AND SAID UNTO HER, 

GO UP IN PEACE TO THINE HOUSE; 

SEE, I HAVE HEARKENED TO THY VOICE, 

AND HAVE ACCEPTED THY PERSON.

LOVE