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Nabal Insults David

25 Now Samuel died, and all the Israelites ·met [L gathered; assembled] and ·had a time of sadness [mourned] for him. Then they buried him at his home in Ramah.

David moved to the ·Desert [Wilderness] of Maon.[a] A man in Maon who had ·land [business] at Carmel was very rich. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was ·cutting the wool off his sheep [having his sheep shorn] at Carmel.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:1 Maon Some early Greek copies read “Maon.” Hebrew copies read “Paran.”

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