1 Samuel 25:3

25:3 The man’s name was Nabal, ¹  and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was both wise ²  and beautiful, but the man was harsh and his deeds were evil. He was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 25:18-19

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ³  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ⁴  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys 25:19 and said to her servants, “Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:33

25:33 Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded ⁵  for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!

[25:3]  ¹ sn The name נָבָל (Nabal) means “foolish” or “senseless” in Hebrew, and as an adjective the word is used especially of persons who have no perception of ethical or religious claims. It is an apt name for this character, who certainly typifies such behavior.

[25:3]  ² tn Heb “good of insight”; KJV “of good understanding”; NAB, NIV, TEV “intelligent”; NRSV “clever.”

[25:18]  ³ tn Heb “skins.”

[25:18]  ⁴ sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.

[25:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “blessed.”