Chapter 25

Death of Samuel. ¹ Now Samuel died, and all of Israel gathered to mourn for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah. David then went down into the Desert of Paran.^[a]

Nabal and Abigail. ² There was a certain man from Maon who had property in Carmel, for he was very wealthy. He owned three thousand sheep and one thousand goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. ³ His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was a good woman, intelligent and beautiful, but her husband, who was a Calebite, was difficult and disagreeable in his dealings.