Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

We're back in first Samuel today and the last thing that happened in this storyline was

that David spared Saul's life.

Then Saul acknowledged that David would be the next king.

So the timing is right for Samuel to die, which is how our reading opens today.

Then we get to David and his people who had protected a rich man's flux while he was

out of town.

The rich man's name is Neball, which means foolish.

They've done Neball a service, so David sends his men to ask Neball for provisions so

they can keep the feast, but he refuses and even insults David.

So they decide to attack his estate and take what he refuses to give.

David makes a vow to kill all the males in Neball's household.

It's interesting to see how differently David responds here than how he was responding

to Saul in the past.

One of Neball's servants takes word of all of this back to Neball's wife Abigail, letting

her know how honorable and helpful David and his men have been to them.

The servant knows his life as a stake, but he can't appeal to Neball because he's an unreasonable

man, so he goes to Abigail instead.

She gets some food and wine together, a lot of it, like she clears the aisles at the

Israeli Costco and takes it to David without mentioning it to her husband.

And she has a beautiful approach when she drops off all the shopping carts.

She humbles herself before him and accepts the blame for everything that has gone wrong,

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