37But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
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For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? …
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-44)We are now to attend Nabal’s funeral and Abigail’s wedding. I. Nabal’s funeral. The apostle speaks of some that were twice dead , Jude 1:12. We have hare Nabal thrice dead, though but just now wonderfully rescued from the sword of David and delivered from so great a death; for the preservations of wicked men are but reservations for some further sorer strokes of divine wrath. Here is, 1. Nabal dea…
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