Introduction
NABAL AND ABIGAIL, 1 Samuel 25:1-44.
The episode of this chapter is a narrative so clear and simple as to require little textual comment; but it furnishes us several most interesting pictures of domestic life in the East, and also shows that David and his men were neither idle nor useless during all the time of their life in the wilderness.
1. Samuel died This fact seems to have been recorded here because it occurred about this period of David’s wanderings.
Lamented him And well they might, not only in view of his historical greatness and moral worth, but also in view of their past ingratitude to him. They probably felt that many of the disasters of Saul’s reign had befallen them because they rejected Samuel and clamoured for a king like the nations.
Buried him in his house In the buryingplace belonging to his house, perhaps in the court or garden immediately contiguous thereto, where, like Joseph of Arimathea, (Matthew 27:60,) he may have had his tomb prepared long before his decease.
Wilderness of Paran This bounds the wilderness of Judah on the south. See on Genesis 21:21, and Numbers 10:12.
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