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11Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

1 Samuel 25:11

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 2-11)

Here begins the story of Nabal. I. A short account of him, who and what he was ( 1 Sam. 25:2 , 3 ), a man we should never have heard of if there had not happened some communication between him and David. Observe, 1. His name: Nabal—a fool ; so it signifies. It was a wonder that his parents would give him that name and an ill omen of what proved to be this character. Yet indeed we all of us deserve...

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