Optional parts of the readings are set off in square brackets. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her." But Martha was distracted by her many tasks so she came to him and asked, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me." But the Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things there is need of only one thing. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he was saying. The Psalm Psalm 36:1-5Īs Jesus and his disciples went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. About ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died. In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him he became like a stone. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk so she told him nothing at all until the morning light. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”ĭavid said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today! Blessed be your good sense, and blessed be you, who have kept me today from bloodguilt and from avenging myself by my own hand! For as surely as the Lord the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there would not have been left to Nabal so much as one male.” Then David received from her hand what she had brought him he said to her, “Go up to your house in peace see, I have heeded your voice, and I have granted your petition.”Ībigail came to Nabal he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. When the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel, my lord shall have no cause of grief, or pangs of conscience, for having shed blood without cause or for having saved himself. If anyone should rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living under the care of the Lord your God but the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling. Please forgive the trespass of your servant for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live. And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord. Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, since the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from taking vengeance with your own hand, now let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be like Nabal. My lord, do not take seriously this ill-natured fellow, Nabal for as his name is, so is he Nabal is his name, and folly is with him but I, your servant, did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent. She fell at his feet and said, “Upon me alone, my lord, be the guilt please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant. When Abigail saw David, she hurried and alighted from the donkey, fell before David on her face, bowing to the ground. God do so to David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.” Now David had said, “Surely it was in vain that I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him but he has returned me evil for good. As she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, David and his men came down toward her and she met them. She loaded them on donkeys and said to her young men, “Go on ahead of me I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal. Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs.
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