May 6【每日活水】使人和睦的人得享预定之福

32  大卫对亚比该说：「耶和华－以色列的　神是应当称颂的，因为他今日使你来迎接我。

33  你和你的见识也当称赞；因为你今日拦阻我亲手报仇、流人的血。

34  我指着阻止我加害于你的耶和华－以色列永生的　神起誓，你若不速速地来迎接我，到明日早晨，凡属拿八的男丁必定不留一个。」

35  大卫受了亚比该送来的礼物，就对她说：「我听了你的话，准了你的情面，你可以平平安安地回家吧！」

36   亚比该到拿八那里，见他在家里设摆筵席，如同王的筵席；拿八快乐大醉。亚比该无论大小事都没有告诉他，就等到次日早晨。

37  到了早晨，拿八醒了酒，他的妻将这些事都告诉他，他就魂不附体，身僵如石头一般。

38  过了十天，耶和华击打拿八，他就死了。

39  大卫听见拿八死了，就说：「应当称颂耶和华，因他伸了拿八羞辱我的冤，又阻止仆人行恶；也使拿八的恶归到拿八的头上。」于是大卫打发人去，与亚比该说，要娶她为妻。

40 大卫的仆人到了迦密见亚比该，对她说：「大卫打发我们来见你，想要娶你为妻。」

41  亚比该就起来，俯伏在地，说：「我情愿作婢女，洗我主仆人的脚。」

42  亚比该立刻起身，骑上驴，带着五个使女，跟从大卫的使者去了，就作了大卫的妻。

43  大卫先娶了耶斯列人亚希暖，她们二人都作了他的妻。

44  扫罗已将他的女儿米甲，就是大卫的妻，给了迦琳人拉亿的儿子帕提为妻。

32  David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.

33  May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.

34  Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”

35  Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.”

36  When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.

37  Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.

38  About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died.

39  When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.”

Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.

40  His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.”

41  She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”

42  Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David’s messengers and became his wife.

43  David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives.

44  But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.