1 Samuel 25:4
“When therefore David heard in the desert that Nabal was shearing his sheep, etc. When the Lord, conversing in the world in man, heard that the learned in the law were preparing their hearers either to cleanse themselves from sins or to offer their own for the Lord, as if with the fitting scissors of practice, He sent…”
Source: Septuagint
4And David heard in the wilderness, that Nabal the Carmelite was shearing his sheep.
Preparing…
Preparing…
Preparing…
2And there was a man in Maon, and his flocks were in Carmel, and he was a very great man; and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand she-goats: and he happened to be shearing his flock in Carmel.
3And the man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail: and his wife was of good understanding and very beautiful in person: but the man was harsh and evil in his doings, and the man was churlish.
— 1 Samuel 25:4 —
5And David sent ten young men, and he said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and ask him in my name how he is.
6And thus shall ye say, May thou and thy house seasonably prosper, and all thine be in prosperity.