1 Samuel 25:1-17

David’s Confession of Saul’s Kingship and the Aftermath of 1 Samuel 24

Lee, would you mind open this up with a word of prayer?

Heavenly, we do thank you this day, this Lord's Day, and for this time. We confess in our Father that we are here only because of your grace and your mercy. Thank you, Father, for creating us, for saving us, and sustaining us each day of our lives.

In Jesus' name, amen. Hey, Sybil, pull that door shut. Andy didn't go out that way, did he? He did?

Let's go back to 1 Samuel chapter 24, and I didn't finish the last couple of verses, and I can't skip them. So, we'll just walk through those, and then I'll make a... I had a couple of questions, one a couple of weeks ago I didn't get to answer.

And then I've got another one that was asked this week. That person's not here, but I'll answer it anyway. I'll pick up in verse 16 so we can read to the end of the chapter. It said, When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, Is this your voice, my son?

And Saul lifted up his voice, and he wept. And he said to David, You are more righteous than I, for you have dealt well with me while I have dealt wickedly with you. You have declared today that you have done good to me, and that the Lord delivered you into my hands, and yet you did not kill me.

For if a man finds his enemies, will he let him go safely? May the Lord, therefore, reward you with good in return for what you have done to me. Now, behold, I know you will surely be king, that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands.

So now swear to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me, that you will not destroy my name from my father's household. And David swore to Saul, and Saul went to his home, and David and his men went to the stronghold.

So we left off last week at the end of 20, where he knew that God was going to establish him as king. So this is an actual recognition by Saul that he knows, not just maybe in his mind or what has transpired over the years, he actually makes a confession to David that he knows he's going to be king.

So we get to the end of this, and we would think that okay, the pursuit to kill David is over, there's this recognition of who he's going to be, looks like there's a confession and repentance type idea with Saul, but it will be short-lived.

But he does ask him to not destroy his descendants after him, nor cut off his father's household name. Now, when we get into 2 Samuel, there is going to be an interaction that takes place because of what Saul does to Gibeah.

We have no idea what happened until we get to that chapter. I think it's in chapter 21 or 22. Great famine happens. Saul had went to Gibeah. Remember the Gibeah knights were just right here, just a few miles, maybe two miles from where his throne was at.

They were in the land of Benjamin. They had made a covenant with them when they were tricked by Joshua, was tricked when they came into the land. Well, the famine comes. He entreats to the Lord and says, why is this famine here?

I've been here for three years. God says it's because of the bloodthirsty actions of Saul. So, what I want you to do is go talk to the Gibeah knights and see what they want. They go talk to them. They say, hey, we don't want reparations.

We don't want money. We don't want silver, gold. What we want is the seven descendants or the seven sons of Saul so that we can hang them for what he did to our people at retribution. So, when we see here that David makes a covenant with him to not destroy his family, Samuel does have all of his descendants destroyed but one.

Does anybody remember who that one he keeps? Mephibosheth. So, he does wind up turning over his, basically, grandsons. When we get to that part, there's a textual variant. I think King James says Michael, and then the other translations say Merab.

It winds up being Merab. They try to keep it with the Masoretic text. Anyway, we'll get to that whenever we get to that part. That could be months from now. So, he does fulfill his duty and his covenant with Saul and with Jonathan by not cutting off his house because he did save Mephibosheth.

Why did he save Mephibosheth? I can't even say it. Say it, Mike. Mephibosheth. There you go. Why did he save Mephibosheth? Because he was Jonathan's son. And he promised that he would show him loving kindness.

Anybody remember what happened to Mephibosheth? He was lame. He was lame. Yep, when they were running. Yep, fell and broke his legs, and he was lame, and he brought him into his house. Even Mephibosheth says, Why did you bring me in here?

Why are you trying to? He says, Because of your dad. You're going to eat with me, and you're going to be like the king's son. As a matter of fact, he goes and he takes land from another person and says, Hey, you're going to farm this land, and you're going to farm it for Mephibosheth.

And it's interesting in how those people see that's a kind thing, and they do it in lieu of being honorable to the king. All right. It said, So David swore this to Saul, and Saul went to his home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

Now, whether we know whether it was back doing Getty or whether it was down to where it's modern-day Masada, we have no idea. But he went back to wherever this place that they were going, and this looks and appears on the surface that this pursuit is over.

How to Find Christ in the Old Testament by Redemptive-Historical Development

Now, before we go into chapter 25, I was asked a question, and I was going to try to deal with it last, but we just didn't get to it. Back in chapter 23, when David is in the he goes into the cave of Adullam, chapter 22, I think, and I was asked the question, Do you not see that this is a picture of Christ?

And I gave the short answer because it was five minutes before church, and that short answer is no. And here's why. When we are doing biblical interpretation, and we try to make connections to Christ, which we should, okay?

We should. If we're doing your biblical theology runs on a line. That's not the Big Bang Theory. That's just when God said, Let there be light. When we're doing biblical theology, we're seeing things develop, right?

We see the garden. What did the garden represent? It's a dwelling place of God, right? So we're seeing these threads. I'm going to make these parallel because this is then how you would develop your systematic theology.

So you have a dwelling place of God develops. Then we start looking as they develop progressively through revelation. Then we start seeing other things, right? We see what happens here. We have maybe three days later.

I don't know. I'm just kidding. We have the fall. So then or we can say exile. Then what do we start to see? Exile and punishment. That's what we start to see. See, these things start developing that we're going to see, and when we start seeing these things develop, then we see how Christ fits into these.

All right, let's go. After the fall, let's just just a little small theology lesson. We see something else develop. What happens between Cain and Abel? He kills them. And so through progressive revelation, our biblical thought, we're going to see the first murder.

I'll just put Abel, okay? What does Cain become the first of? Forget the garden for a second and Satan. What does Cain become the first of? Who said it? He is certainly the first murderer, but why did he was Abel not righteous?

Right? He becomes the first enemy of God's people. Who was the descendant of Cain that murders not one person but two? Lamech. So you start seeing these things develop. So now you're seeing with Cain, you're seeing the development of enemies of God, which would ultimately, when you get down here, would be anti-Christ, meaning opposed, not the one that comes at the end of the age and all that, just someone opposing.

So we're seeing these things develop. So as we're seeing these things develop, these fit into a systematic theology. When we get to I'm just going to use this David, and uh-oh. Yeah, and Abdullah.

Do we see any theology of caves in Scripture? That's why we would not use that as that's why we do not see the cave of Adullam as a picture of Christ. Okay? First of all, when you make pictures and allegories like that, you have an inconsistency with if the cave was Christ, so now we have the Christ type hiding in Christ.

You see the inconsistency. If Christ if David is hidden in Christ, is David hiding from God? Good question. He's not. Christ people hidden in Christ are always hidden from who? The wrath of God. Everybody hidden in Christ is hidden from who?

God. Who was David hiding from in the cave of Adullam? Saul. He was hiding from the enemies of God. He was hiding from Gath. So that is why. So, the other question last week was asked, how do we find Christ through the development of our storyline?

Actually, how do you see Christ in the Old Testament? And it's through the development of historical redemptive history. That's how we do it. So when we look at let's go here to Noah. Alright? We would all see the ark as a Christ type, would we not?

Right? Why? And who were they being saved from in the ark? From God's wrath. That's right. From God's wrath. From God's wrath. Now, I understand that we could say, hey, in this case, he was finding refuge, right?

I understand that. I get that. But what are we going to do with last week when him and all of his friends are in a cave and God delivers an enemy into it? You see what I'm saying? The theology of caves is not within Scripture.

It has to be rooted in the character and nature of God. What are we going to do when we get to 2 Samuel and he does the same thing in the cave of Adullam and he's hiding from Absalom? Okay? So when we are trying to find Christ, we look at Christ as it has developed in types.

Who is the fulfillment of the dwelling place of God? Christ. Remember what he said? Hey, he stood in the temple. The temple was typological, was it not? Was the tabernacle typological? Was the tabernacle typological?

Yes. What was it? It was the housing of the dwelling place of God. All right? So that happened somewhere around here. Then we move forward. But remember, this moved around, circular. Then when we get to the temple, what was different about the temple than the tabernacle about the dwelling place of God?

It didn't move. It became stationary. So now there was actually a stationary place where God's people would come to meet him, to worship him, but only one person could go into the presence of the Lord one time a year, but they could go to the outer courts.

Then when Jesus comes, he says, you destroyed this temple in three days and I'm going to raise it up and they want to stone him and all that. Okay? And it wasn't until after, it says in the Gospels, that Jesus was resurrected that they understood what he meant when he said, you destroyed this temple and in three days I will raise it up.

So it has to do with the dwelling place of God. So you see these things develop over redemptive history and we see types and shadows. That's what we do. Okay? That's how we see Christ in the Old Testament.

If we can make those connections, okay, when I say this, if we make those connections that the Bible doesn't make, it's an unbiblical connection. It doesn't mean it's a sinful connection. It just isn't unbiblical.

The Bible doesn't make that distinction. Okay? It's like the rocks and the sling. Okay? The Bible doesn't make those distinctions. Alright? So that's what we do in biblical terms to answer the question of how do we see Christ as it develops in types and shadows that culminate in Christ through the storyline of redemptive history.

That's how we see Christ in the Old Testament. Hey, if anybody wants to read a good book, Graham Goldworthy book, one of the best ones I ever read. It's very good. It's seeing Jesus Christ throughout the Bible.

It steers away from any type of allegorical interpretation. It actually deals with a storyline that deals in types and shadows. Okay? Alright. Let's start chapter 25, verse 1. It said,. And then Samuel died.

All Israel gathered together and mourned for him and buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. Samuel died. Is this not a significant thing in biblical history?

Who was Samuel? Priest. Well, he was a... He was... He functioned as an intercessor of the people of God while the tabernacle was not up. He was not a descendant of Aaron. Remember that. That is the key.

He was not a descendant of Aaron. He was a Kohathite. And the Kohathites took care of the implements, the menorah, the show table, and all of that. But he could not go beyond the veil into the Holy of Holies.

Only Eli and his descendants, which were of the Arianic priesthood. It's funny, well, funny, ironic that it places in the narrative now, it places Samuel died. It's almost as if the narrator, whoever this was, as he...

Now that there's an actual recognition by Saul that David's going to be king, we see now Samuel dies. It's almost like, you know, you think back when Keith was teaching through Genesis and you get to where Jacob's there with Joseph and all of his boys together and he's given the blessings and cursing.

You know, some of them were cursed because of what they did. And it's Simeon and Levi. And as he was with all of his people gathered together, he was able to... It says that he lifted up his legs into his bed and he breathed his last breath.

And we see that here. Samuel is going to die. I want to hope that maybe for a short amount of time and we don't know, that David and Saul had squashed this because it says here, and all Israel gathered together to mourn for him and they buried him at his house at Ramah.

All is an inclusive word. Yeah, all is an inclusive word. Now sometimes all can be all within the same group, but it's interesting how it flows that David and Saul were no longer at odds with one another for this short amount of time.

Did they meet in Ramah to bury the prophet that anointed both those kings? I mean, you have a God that had a stellar life. What can we say, if you want to say there was any fallacy of Samuel, what would it be?

Although it's not his fault, it was his sons.

What's that? It's not his fault, but he's the one who Saul... Because God told him to though. God told him to.

Yeah, God told him to. It's not his fault. Not his fault. The only thing we can see in his life is his two sons were perverting justice. Remember when he set them up in other places because he was getting older and he couldn't make his circuit, so he set his sons up to do stuff and they were perverting it and he did rebuke them.

That's all that we can say about him. He was a constant intercessor for the people. For the 40 years that he was a judge, it says he ruled them righteously. He always did what God told him to do. Even when God told him to go to Bethlehem and anoint another king, and he said, man, I'm fearful for my life.

If Saul finds out he's going to kill me, what did he do? He went. He was a faithful man of God. He was a faithful man of God. He was a faithful man to intercede for the people of God. He was faithful to tell them when they were doing wrong.

Remember when they wanted a king and they came to him, he took it kind of as a personal attack on him. And God says, no, no, no, no, no. They're not rejecting your word. Who are they rejecting? They're rejecting, he says, they're not rejecting you as the prophet.

They're rejecting me as king and they want one like the nations. And you know what? I'm going to give them what they want as an act of judgment to them. And that's what they did. They gave him Saul. He gave him an unconverted man that would apostatize and gave him a man that would take stuff from them, would oppress their people, and he would ultimately try to kill the real anointed king.

So it says they mourned for him and buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and he went down to the wilderness of Paran. And that's why I would take it as David being there when he was buried because it says, and David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

That's why, which would have been down, yeah, down, yeah, down towards the Negev desert. And now we get to a narrative. I'm going to read the whole thing. Let's see, I'm going to read it. Actually, I'll probably just read to the end of 17 because we may not get through this whole, because the chapter is very lengthy.

Nabal and Abigail in the Wilderness of Paran

So let me just read through verse 17 and then we'll stop and walk through it and then see how far we get. It says, Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. And the man was very rich. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats.

And it came about while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. Now the man's name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail. And the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance. But the man was harsh and evil in his dealings.

He was a Calebite. And then David heard that the wilderness, that Nabal was, I'm sorry, then David had heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. So David sent ten young men and David said to the young men, You go up to Carmel.

You visit Nabal and greet him in my name. And thus you shall say, Have a long life. Peace be to you. Peace be to your house and peace be to all that you have. Now I have heard that you have shears. And now your shepherds have been with us and they have not been insulted nor have they missed anything all the days that they were in Carmel.

Ask your young men and they will tell you. Therefore, let my young men find favor in your eyes for we have come on a festive day. Please give whatever you find in your hand to your servants and to your son David.

And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal concerning all the words of David's name. And they waited and Nabal answered David's servants and says, Who is David? And who is this son of Jesse?

There are many servants today who are at each one breaking away from his master. Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shears and give it to men whose origins I do not know?

So David's men retracted their way and went back. And they came and told him according to all of his words. And David said to his men, Each of you gird on his sword. So each man girded on his sword and David also girded on his sword.

And about 400 men went up and David, while 200 of them stayed back with the baggage. But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master and he scorned them.

Yet the men, they were very good to us and we were not insulted nor did we miss anything as long as they were with us going about with us in the field. They were a wall to us by day and by night all the time that we were there tending the sheep.

Now therefore know and consider what you should do for evil is plotted against your master and against his household and he is such a worthless man that no one can speak to him. Alright. How many of y 'all remember ever read this passage?

Okay. So as we're seeing David was in that vicinity his men had obviously befriended the shearers of Nabal. Okay. They were in Carmel. When's the last time we saw Carmel? Anybody remember? Anybody remember what happened at Carmel?

From the back at the great slaughter that was not completed with Agag what did Saul do at Carmel? He stopped and set up a monument for himself to say look what I have done. So that's the last time we see Carmel.

It's interesting that here it is. You have two narcissistic men located in Carmel. Nabal and at that time you had Saul. Obviously Nabal was rich. It says here in verse 2 he was very rich. He had 3 ,000 sheep and 1 ,000 goats.

And it came about that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. What time of year would this have been if they were shearing sheep? Spring time. It would have been around the same time. Spring time. Shearing sheep was a time of festivities.

If you remember back in Genesis when Judah, when he went to his I forget his friend's name, but when he went to his friend's house and he was tricked to sleep with Tamar you remember where he was going?

He was going to the shearing of the sheep. Shearing of the sheep harvest time was always a time of festivities because it showed the prosperity that God had given His people. Just like Pentecost is the not that part but it was the time in which they remembered the firstfruits given and the harvest time.

Well this too was a time to go man God has blessed us with all of these sheep. He has blessed us with all of the wool and as they don't think of shearing the sheep as just them coming like just cutting it off.

It had to be pulled off in fleeces so that when they cut it, it come off in almost like a mat. Like a bath floor mat. And that's how it would come off. So there was a little bit more to it than just they didn't have obviously electric shears.

It was more like filleting it off I guess. And it says that the man's name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail. We will learn what Abigail says about her husband. Now whether Nabal his name was actually Nabal or whether it was a nickname we do not know.

But it means fool. Okay. And she will say Nabal is his name and foolishness is with him. So it's hard for me to believe that Mr. and Mrs. Nabal the day that he was born him being circumcised on the 8th day went oh look at this precious fool.

You know it's hard for me to believe that somewhere along the line he contrasted the nickname of fool. So and his wife was Abigail she was an intelligent and beautiful in appearance. But the man was harsh with his dealings and he was a Calebite.

Who was Caleb? Not this one. Came back with a good report. So we look at and he was one of the only two after the 40 years of disobedience that came into the land. Yeah that came into the land. There was only two.

Remember 12 spies, 10 were bad, 2 were good. Remember the little song we use in children's church. Yeah. So we have Caleb. So we look at that and we go man this guy does come from good stock. I mean Caleb was Caleb a man of faith?

He sure was because he said hey man look at these, look at all these dates we brought back. They're like yeah they're giants in there but man we'll go in there and the Lord will overthrow them. And they listened to the 10 bad reports instead.

So we know that Caleb was of good stock. Caleb was actually given some land and after they had went through the land about 5 years they had conquered it. He says hey I've done my best I can do for you Joshua and I want my rest now give me my land.

He was 80 when everyone sure was. He's like Jack. 80 years old. So his wife was beautiful he was harsh and David heard that they were shearing the sheep so David sent 10 young men and David said to the young men go up to Carmel visit Nabal and greet him and why would they go why would they greet them in David's name?

He's assuming that he knows who David is. He's assuming that he knows that either David was and we know that he will understand this part that he was he was in Saul's court now how he understands that we'll find out here in a minute but he says hey when you go to him you say these things.

One he gives him a blessing have a long life. Peace be to you. Peace be to your whole household and peace be to all that you have. I want you to remember exactly and maybe we'll look back at it when I get there.

He is going to in action reel all that back. He's telling him to have a long life but he will desire to kill him he will say peace be to you but he's fixing to go make war with him. He says and peace be to your house and you will see that he will tell I'm not going to leave one male descendant left in his house and then he says and peace be to all that you have.

Well it ain't going to be peace to all that you have. He goes in there and he slays every man what are they going to do with their stuff? They're going to take it. That's right. They're going to take it.

He says now I have heard that you have shears and that your shepherds have been with us and we have not insulted them nor have they missed anything all the days that they were in Carmel. What does this say about David and his men?

Very honorable. Despite being axe dodgers and people who are.

Unhappy with the government. With the exception of being 600 motley crew men. These guys are actually carrying out the desires and the character of David which was to protect God's people. He says look we have been with your shears and while they have been here doing whatever they've been doing nothing has either come up missing nothing has come to harm them whether it be we're just going to use this whether it be wolf or bear anything to hurt the sheep nor while they were while those men were doing the sheep shearing they acted as security.

Now on the surface level when he asked for something I have heard this talk years ago. Hey basically David was looking to a point to extort Nabal. Hey look here me and my 600 dudes been here. We've been watching over all your stuff.

Yes ma 'am.

You don't take care of someone.

Ahead of time. Well they're taking care of him ahead of time and now he's saying alright now it's time to pay the piper. I don't agree with it but that's what the guy said. Now David's saying pay the piper.

That's not what David's saying. And we'll see it because he says whatever you find in your hand Nabal whatever it is just give it. Now what were these what were the Israelites supposed to do in the time of festive days?

That's it. They were supposed to share with everybody. Matter of fact if they in a time of and you couldn't get to the main festivals that took place in Jerusalem once it set up as the temple and that was going to be the main location and you couldn't make it there what were they supposed to do?

Take the money, take their offering, sell it, take that money, find a sojourner and have a party. That's what they were supposed to do. So what David's asking is not inconsistent with what had already been revealed in the Mosaic legislation.

He's like look we're all descendants of Abraham and of Jacob. This is a time of festivity. God has overwhelmingly blessed you and all I'm asking you to do I sent 10 guys to you. Just whatever your hand can give us, give us.

And what he is basically asking for reciprocal kindness. Was David kind to his people? Not David's people but was he kind to Nabal's people? Very kind. So what he was saying here is hey man I've been kind to your people for this whole time however long that had been.

We don't know. If you're out there with a flint knife and filleting off some fleece it's probably a little wild to get 3 ,000 sheep. So he's saying hey the total time they were there they were fine and dandy.

I'm just asking to give me whatever's in your hand. And when David's young men came they spoke to Nabal according to all the words in David's name and then they waited. So here it is. They give him the speech and they just here it goes.

And then Nabal answered David's servants this way. Who is David? And then he says the same thing Saul says. Who is this son of Jesse? That is a antagonistic way of saying this guy ain't nobody. And then he says aren't there many servants today who are breaking away from this master?

What is he saying about David's character at this point? He's a nobody. That's it. He is saying that he is rebelling against the crown. That's what he's saying. He's saying look he's your master but you're breaking away to do your own thing.

Now whether that was his perception of maybe what was going on because I seriously doubt that there was the hubbub in the area was you know there had been some rift between David and Saul I mean this could have probably been 10 years 15 I don't know at least 10 this had been going on.

He says in each one breaking away from his master shall I take, here it is, my bread my water my meat that I have slaughtered for my shears and basically says and give it to your men who I don't even know where you're coming from ultimately how were they supposed to see their bread their water, their meat their sheep and their servants?

Coming from God. That's why they were supposed to share it. I mean it was communal not communistic but it was communal. Hey look man this is what God has blessed me with and I have more than abundance let me help those who were one had been kind to me and they're in need.

Obviously he's saying look man my guys are hungry. They were hungry. This is good to benefit out. They were hungry. 600 of them. And based on having 600 men with him 10 men can't carry back a lot. Can they?

Think about it. Were they going to carry back 200 pounds of raisins on their back each one? No. He sent 10 guys to go get whatever they could whatever their hands could bring back. He says we're mad. Shall I take shall I take my bread and my and he says so David's young men retracted their way and went back.

For years I preached it through the New King James. Do you think the New King James does it say turns on their heels? Does yours say that Andy? What does yours say? Who's got New King James? What does it say?

Does it say turn on the heels? Yeah. So it's like alright Nabal said it. Oh boy. And they just here it goes. This guy has just said some terrible stuff about David. He does not know who he just said these things about.

They don't understand that this man has slayed the giant. He has no problem killing the enemies of God's people. David's going to be very angry. Ma 'am. Yeah he's going to say that in a few minutes. He does know who David is.

What's that? Sure well the shearers, we'll get there in just a second. Because the shearers are like saying hey man what this guy did was good. So however long David was in that area they had developed a relationship with those men that those men liked David.

Look Nabal didn't send any of his men to protect his men when they were sheared. Hey let's just take for whatever they were at. Okay. Carl. It would not have been easy for the Philistines to send a cohort of guys when they're out there spending their time shearing sheep and herding goats to send a cohort of men over there from the Philistines from the bank where they would always come from from the coast side and try to raid them.

Were they not consistently raiding the people of God? Well what the guy says here man when they were here none of that happened. They were a wall around us both by day and by night. Look they were their security system.

Would you say something? Yep. They were raided. Kiela was raided and when did they raid them? The time of harvest. So at the time of the threshing floor they were out there beating the grain when they were busy and nobody was paying attention and what did they do?

They sent men in there to rob the threshing floor. They went in so much that they even took oxen in there. We're going to drag it out because it says that David hauls their own livestock out the Philistines' livestock.

So it says so verse 13 David said they turned on their heels in verse 12 according to the words. They get back to David David said to his men each of you gird on his sword so that each man girded on his sword.

David also girded on his sword and when about four hundred men went with him why two stayed back with the baggage. Look here David at this point he is so angry that he says put on your sword we're going to handle this and we're going to handle this the way I handle the uncircumcised people.

Does David have the legitimate right to be angry or upset? I think he has a legitimate right to be upset. Yeah, but he's just saying hey man I'm just wanting you to reciprocate kindness for kindness and when he says hey man you know what I'm not even going to send back one lentil to this guy because I think he's a rebellious servant of Saul.

That's what I think he is and he sent his men back. David at this point, well here's what he says, gird on your sword and all of his men. What is he about to do? He's fixing to do exactly what Saul did to the city of Nob.

Remember last week I said here it is, here comes the test is he going to be like Saul the rejected king or is he going to be the anointed king? Now, he says that David left two men back with the baggage, 200 men back with the baggage.

In verse 14, but one of the young men told Abigail, and who was she? What was her what was her adjectives to describe her? Beautiful. Intelligent. So okay, we ain't going to go talk to the fool again, we're going to go talk to somebody who's got some sense.

So they go to Abigail the Nabal's servants and said, hey David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master. He scorned them. Hey, even Nabal's own people says, hey man, this dude ripped David's guys a new one.