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 Nabal, which means foolish. They've done Nabal a service, so David sends

his men to ask Nabal 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 Nabal's household.

It's interesting to see how differently David responds here than how he was responding to Saul in the past. One of Nabal's household. It's interesting to see how differently David responds here than how he was

responding to Saul in the past. One of Nabal's servants takes word of all of this back to Nabal'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 Nabal 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, even though it's not her 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 Nabal 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 king of Israel.

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