“If anyone should attack you and try to kill you, the Lord your God will keep you safe, as someone guards a precious treasure. As for your enemies, however, he will throw them away, as someone hurls stones with a sling.”
May you guard me as a precious treasure, Father.
“…when the Lord has done all the good things he has promised you and has made you king of Israel, then you will not have to feel regret or remorse, sir, for having killed without cause or for having taken your own revenge.”
I resolve to act today and forevermore as if I’m on the other side of those promises, Lord.
David said to her, “Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me! Thank God for your good sense and for what you have done today in keeping me from the crime of murder and from taking my own revenge.”
Thank God and the person involved: the two planes of existence working in harmony. Please send my way such people to prevent me from acting against your will, Lord!
Abigail went back to Nabal, who was at home having a feast fit for a king. He was drunk and in a good mood, so she did not tell him anything until the next morning.
Nabal was living in the illusion that he had cheated David and his men from what was rightfully theirs and was profiting from it at that very moment. A short lived feast like that of Belshazzar (Daniel 5). May I always live in reality, Father.
…after he had sobered up, she told him everything. He suffered a stroke and was completely paralyzed. Some ten days later the Lord struck Nabal and he died.
Nabal clearly had a stroke. Were those 10 days given as an opportunity for him to repent?
When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praise the Lord! He has taken revenge on Nabal for insulting me and has kept me his servant from doing wrong. The Lord has punished Nabal for his evil.”
I do humbly ask that you take my defense, Lord – that I would see that with my own eyes one day.