1 Samuel 25:19
And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:19 in other translations
| BSB | and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal. |
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| WEB | She said to her young men, “Go on before me. Behold, I am coming after you.” But she didn’t tell her husband, Nabal. |
| ASV | And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. |
| YLT | And she saith to her young men, ‘Pass over before me; lo, after you I am coming;' and to her husband Nabal she hath not declared it; |
| DARBY | And she said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal. |
| BBE | And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal. |
| Webster | And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. |
What does 1 Samuel 25:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 25:18-31
By a present Abigail atoned for Nabal's denial of David's request. Her behaviour was very submissive. Yielding pacifies great offences. She puts herself in the place of a penitent, and of a petitioner. She could not excuse her husband's conduct. She depends not upon her own reasonings, but on God's grace, to soften David, and expects that grace would work powerfully. She says that it was below him to take vengeance…
1 Samuel 25:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Samuel 25:19
- Genesis 32:20
And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
- Genesis 32:16
And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
- Proverbs 31:11-12
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
- Proverbs 31:27
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
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Context
- 1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
- 1 Samuel 25:19
And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
- 1 Samuel 25:20
And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.
1 Samuel 25:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y dijo á sus criados: Id delante de mí, que yo os seguiré luego. Y nada declaró á su marido Nabal. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et elle dit à ses jeunes hommes: Passez devant moi; voici, je viens après vous. Et elle ne dit rien à Nabal, son mari. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | und sie sprach zu ihren Knaben: Ziehet vor mir hin; siehe, ich komme hinter euch her. Aber ihrem Manne Nabal sagte sie nichts davon. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | dixitque pueris suis: Præcedite me: ecce ego post tergum sequar vos: viro autem suo Nabal non indicavit. |