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 cut to David and his people who had protected a rich man's flocks while he was out of town.

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

They've done Nabelle a service, so David sends his men to ask Nabel 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 Nabelle's household.

It's interesting to see how differently David responds here

than how he was responding to Saul in the past. One of Nabelle's servants takes word

of all of this back to Nabelle's wife Abigail, letting her know how honorable and helpful David and his men have been to them.

The servant knows his life as at stake, but he can't appeal to Naball 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 isles 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, even

though it's not our fault. This helps to diffuse David's anger. Then she reasons with him

and wishes him well. She also seems to indicate that she knows both David's

past and future. Unlike Nibel who insulted David, she seems to know that he killed Goliath with a

slingshot because she references it, and she seems to know that he'll be the next

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