RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

his name, and folly is with him: but I your female eved
did not see the young men of my master, whom you did
send.
26 Now therefore, my master, as vuvh lives, and as your
being lives, seeing vuvh has withheld you from coming to
shed dahm, and from avenging yourself with your own
hand, now let your enemies, and they that seek evil to my
master, be as Naval.
27 And now this blessing that your female eved has
brought to my master, let it even be given to the young
men that follow my master.
28 I beg you, forgive the trespass of your female eved: for
vuvh will certainly make my master a sure and secure
bayit; because my master fights the battles of vuvh, and
evil has not been found in you all your days.
29 Yet a man has risen to pursue you, and to seek your
chayim: but the chayim of my master shall be bound in
the bundle of chayim with vuvh your Elohim; and the
beings of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of
the middle of a sling.
30 And it shall come to pass, when vuvh shall have done
to my master according to all the tov that He has spoken
concerning you, and shall have appointed you ruler over
Yisrael;
31 That this shall bring no grief to you, no offence of lev
to my master, either that you have shed dahm without
cause, or that my master has avenged himself: but when
vuvh shall have dealt well with my master, then
remember your female eved.
32 And Dawid said to Avigail, Blessed be vuvh Elohim of
Yisrael, who sent you this day to meet me:
33 And blessed is your advice, and blessed are you, who
have kept me this day from coming to shed dahm, and
from avenging myself with my own hand.
34 For in very deed, as vuvh Elohim of Yisrael lives, who
has kept me back from hurting you, except you had
hurried and come to meet me, surely there had not been
left to Naval by the morning light any man.
35 So Dawid received from her hand that which she had
brought him, and said to her, Go up in shalom to your
bayit. See, I have listened to your voice, and have
accepted your whole person.
36 And Avigail came to Naval; and, see, he held a feast in
his bayit, like the feast of a melech; and Naval's lev was
cheerful within him, for he was very drunk: therefore she
told him nothing, at all, until the morning light.
37 But it came to pass in the morning, when Naval was
sober, and his wife had told him these things that his lev
died within him; and he became as a stone lev.
38 And it came to pass about ten days after that vuvh
smote Naval, so that he died.
39 And when Dawid heard that Naval was dead, he said,
Barchu-et-vuvh, who has pleaded the cause of my
reproach from the hand of Naval, and has kept his eved
from doing evil: for vuvh has returned the wickedness of
Naval upon his own head, And Dawid sent and
communicated with Avigail, to take her to him as a wife.
40 And when the avadim of Dawid had come to Avigail
to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, Dawid sent us to
you to take you to him as his wife.
41 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the
earth, and said, See, let your female eved be an eved to
wash the feet of the avadim of my master.
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42 And Avigail hurried, and arose, and rode upon a
donkey, with five young women of hers that went after
her; and she went after the messengers of Dawid, and
became his wife.
43 Dawid also took Achinoam of Yezreel; and they were
also both of them his wives.
44 But Shaul had given Michal his daughter, Dawid's
wife, to Phalti the son of Layish, which was of Gallim.
And the Zifites came to Shaul to Givat, saying, Does
not Dawid hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is
before Yeshimon?
2 Then Shaul arose, and went down to the wilderness of
Zif, having three thousand chosen men of Yisrael with
him, to seek Dawid in the wilderness of Zif.
3 And Shaul camped in the hill of Hachilah, which is
before Yeshimon, along the way. But Dawid stayed in the
wilderness, and he saw that Shaul came after him into the
wilderness.
4 Dawid therefore sent out spies, and understood that
Shaul had come indeed.
5 And Dawid arose, and came to the place where Shaul
had camped: and Dawid beheld the place where Shaul
lay, and Avner the son of Ner, the leader of his army: and
Shaul lay in the trench, and the people camped around
him.
6 Then answered Dawid and said to Achimelech the
Hittite, and to Avishai the son of Tzaruyah, brother to
Yoav, saying, Who will go down with me to Shaul to the
camp? And Avishai said, I will go down with you.
7 So Dawid and Avishai came to the people by night: and,
see, Shaul lay sleeping within the camp, and his spear
stuck in the ground at his head: but Avner and the people
lay around him.
8 Then said Avishai to Dawid, Elohim has delivered your
enemy into your hand this day: now therefore let me
smite him, I ask you, with the spear even to the earth at
once, and I will not smite him the second time.
9 And Dawid said to Avishai, Destroy him not: for who
can stretch forth his hand against vuvh's anointed, and be
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10 Dawid said furthermore, As vuvh lives, vuvh shall
smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall
descend into battle, and perish.
11 But vuvh forbid that I should stretch forth my hand
against vuvh's anointed: but, I ask you, take now the spear
that is at his head, and the jug of mayim, and let us go.
12 So Dawid took the spear and the jug of mayim from
Shaul's head and they got away, and no man saw it, nor
knew it, neither was awakened: for they were all asleep;
because a deep sleep from vuvh had fallen upon them.
13 Then Dawid went over to the other side, and stood on
the top of a hill far off; a great space being between them:
14 And Dawid shouted to the people, and to Avner the
son of Ner, saying, Don’t you answer, Avner? Then
Avner answered and said, Who are you that shouts at the
melech?
15 And Dawid said to Avner, Are not you a brave man?
And who is like you in Yisrael? Why then have you not
guarded your master the melech? For there came one of
the people in to destroy the melech your master.
16 This thing is not tov that you have done. As vuvh lives,
you are worthy to die, because you have not guarded your