A LOVE STORY

ABIGAIL (spirit) AND NABAL (soul) WERE MARRIED (i.e., together in one body), THEN DAVID (Jesus) CAME ALONG, AND SEPARATED THEM FOREVER (just like you and me)

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(1 Sam 25:1-3) And Samuel [the prophet] died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David [Heb: loving] [representing a type and shadow of Jesus Christ] arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran [Heb: a desert]. And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel [Heb: a fruitful (plentiful) place]; and the man was very [Heb: exceedingly] great, and he had three thousand [3,000] sheep, and a thousand [1,000] goats: and he was shearing [Heb: to cut off, shave the wool (off)] his sheep in Carmel. Now the name of the man was Nabal [1] [(a fruitless “tree” in a fruitful place; representing a type and shadow of “the soul”)]; and the name of his wife Abigail [Heb: source of joy] [representing a type and shadow of “the spirit”]: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance [Heb: figure or appearance]: but the man was churlish [2] and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb [Heb: forcible]. 

1.     Nabal = Heb: dolt (fool) /// stupid, wicked (espec. impious): fool, vile person /// to wilt, come to nought.

2.     churlish = Heb: severe: cruel, hard-hearted, obstinate, stiff-necked, stubborn, hard to deal with /// to be dense.

(1 Sam 25:4-9) And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal [the natural man, the soul) did shear his sheep. And David [Jesus] sent out ten young men [i.e., a type and shadow of the Ten Commandments], and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast. And now I have heard that thou hast shearers [at work]: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought [anything] missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. Ask thy [your] young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the [my] young men find favour [Heb: graciousness, kindness] in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David. And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased [i.e., with no additions, thereby not adding to or changing the given Word of David-Jesus-God. 

(1 Sam 25:10-12) And Nabal [the natural man, the soul] answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? [i.e., (Who is Jesus?)] and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master [subtly alluding to David]. Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh [of sheep] that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be? So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings. 

(1 Sam 25:13-17) And David [Heb: loving] said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff [remained in the hideout cave Adullam to guard the baggage]. But one of the young men told Abigail [a type and shadow of Spirit], Nabal's [a type and shadow of soul] wife [i.e., married together in one body, like us], saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute [Heb: bless] our master [Nabal]; and he railed [denounced, censured, faulted, scorned] on them. But the men [of David] were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing [not one thing (sheep nor goat) was stolen], as long as we were conversant [Heb: walked and talked] with them, when we were in the fields: They [(the Ten Commandments)] were a wall [Heb: a wall of protection] unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep [i.e., ministering to the people]. Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master [Nabal], and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial [Heb: without profit, worthlessness; destruction, wickedness: evil, ungodly], that a man cannot speak to him [i.e., he will not listen]. 

(1 Sam 25:18-19) Then Abigail made haste [Heb: to be liquid, flowed] [in the Spirit], 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 [a type and shadow of consecrated believers, servants (us)]. And she [the Holy Spirit] said unto her servants [asses bearing burdens], Go on before me [indicating the Old Testament, before Jesus Christ in the flesh]; behold, I come after you [indicating the New Testament]. But she told not her husband Nabal [Why not? Because it was beyond his level of comprehension] [1]. 

1.     (Matt 7:6) Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend [Gk: brake, burst, tear] you.

(1 Sam 25:20) And it was so, as she rode on the ass [as did Jesus Christ (Matt 21:5) with the Holy Spirit inside Him], that she came down [Heb: descended] by the covert [hidden side] of the hill [“hidden by the mountain” Amplif. Bible] [of God], and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them. Now David had said, Surely in vain [ineffectively, fruitlessly] have I kept [Heb: hedged about, guarded] all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited [Heb: returned to, rewarded] me evil for good. So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of [do not kill] all that pertain [connect, belong] to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall [all the males, i.e., souls]. 

(1 Sam 25:23-31) And when Abigail saw David, she hasted [Heb: flowed] [in the Spirit], 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 [Heb: evil, fault] be: and let thine handmaid [Heb: maidservant] [1^st mention], I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid [2^nd]. Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial [Heb: without profit, worthlessness; destruction, wickedness: evil, ungodly], even Nabal [Heb: wicked, vile person]: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal [Heb: fool] is his name, and folly [Heb: foolishness, wickedness; crime: villany] is with him: but I thine handmaid [3^rd] saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send [when they returned to you with the bad (evil) news]. 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 [i.e., under the curse of eternal damnation]. And now this blessing which thine handmaid [4^th] hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord. I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid [5^th]: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. Yet a man [King Saul] is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies [as stones], them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling. And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid [6^th]. 

(1 Sam 25:32-35) And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand. For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth [actively through you], 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 [Heb: power] 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. 

(1 Sam 25:36-38) And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him [“Nabal apparently suffered a stroke and became paralyzed.” The Nelson Study Bible], and he became as a stone. And it came to pass about ten days after [of suffering the dire consequences of his sinful nature, “eye for eye, tooth for tooth” (Lev 24:20], that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died. 

(1 Sam 25:39-43) And when David heard that Nabal [the natural man, the soul] was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach [Heb: disgrace: rebuke] from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife. And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord. And Abigail hasted [Heb: flowed], and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers [Heb: angels, priests, teachers] [she followed the “pastors”] of David, and became his wife [i.e., the Bride of Christ married to the Lamb of God, Spirit to Spirit]. 

Amen