¹And Sh’mu’el [His name is El] died; and all the Yisra’eli’s were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah [Hill] . And David [beloved] arose, and went down to the wilderness of Pa’ran [place of caverns] .

²And [there was] a man in Ma’on [Habitation] , whose possessions [were] in Carmel [Garden-land] ; and the man [was] very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel [Garden-land] .

³Now the name of the man [was] Naval [fool] ; and the name of his wife Avigayil [my father is joy] : and [she was] a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful Countenance (Face, appearance; show favor): but the man [was] churlish and evil in his doings; and he [was] of the house of Kalev [Dog] .

⁴And David [beloved] heard in the wilderness that Naval [fool] did shear his sheep.

⁵And David [beloved] sent out ten young men, and David [beloved] said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel [Garden-land] , and go to Naval [fool] , and greet him in my name:

⁶And thus shall you2f say to him that lives [in prosperity] , Peace [be] both to youi , and peace [be] to youri house, and peace [be] unto all that youi have.

⁷And now I have heard that youi have shearers: now youri shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel [Garden-land] .

⁸Ask youi young men, and they will show youi . For what reason let the young men find favour in youi eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray youi , whatsoever comes to youri hand unto youri servants, and to youri son David [beloved] .

⁹And when David’s [beloved] ’s young men came, they spoke to Naval [fool] according to all those words in the name of David [beloved] , and ceased.

¹⁰And Naval [fool] answered David’s [beloved] ’s servants, and said, Who [is] David [beloved] ? and who [is] the son of Yishai [I possess] ? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

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 from what place they [be] ?

¹²So David’s [beloved] ’s young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.

¹³And David [beloved] said unto his men, Gird you2f on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David [beloved] also girded on his sword: and there went up after David [beloved] about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

¹⁴But one of the young men told Avigayil [my father is joy] , Naval [fool] ’s wife, saying, Behold, David [beloved] sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

¹⁵But the men [were] very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:

¹⁶They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

¹⁷Now therefore know and consider what youi will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he [is such] a son of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing] , that [a man] cannot speak to him.

¹⁸Then Avigayil [my father is joy] made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched [corn] , and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid [them] on asses.

¹⁹And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Naval [fool] .

²⁰And it was [so, as] she rode on the ass, that she came down by the colonnade of the hill, and, behold, David [beloved] and his men came down against her; and she met them.

²¹Now David [beloved] had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this [fellow] has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that [pertained] unto him: and he has requited me evil for good.

²²So and more also do God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] unto the enemies of David [beloved] , if I leave of all that [pertain] to him by the morning light any that pisses against the wall.

²³And when Avigayil [my father is joy] saw David [beloved] , she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David [beloved] on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

²⁴And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, [upon] me [let this] iniquity [be] : and let youi female servant, I pray youi , speak in youi audience, and hear the words of youi female servant.

²⁵Let not my lord, I pray youi , regard this man of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing] , [even] Naval [fool] : for as his name [is] , so [is] he; Naval [fool] [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I youi female servant saw not the young men of my lord, whom youi did send.

²⁶Now therefore, my lord, [as] the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives, and [as] youri soul lives, seeing the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has withheld youi from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging yourself with youri own hand, now let youri enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Naval [fool] .

²⁷And now this blessing which youi female servant has brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

²⁸I pray youi , forgive the trespass of youri female servant: for the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fights the battles of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , and evil has not been found in youi [all] youri days.

²⁹Yet a man is risen to pursue youi , and to seek youri soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] ; and the souls of youri enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out] of the middle of a sling.

³⁰And it shall come to pass, when the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning youi , and shall have appointed youi ruler over Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] ;

³¹That this shall be no grief unto youi , nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that youi have shed blood causeless, or that my lord has avenged himself: but when the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember youi female servant.

³²And David [beloved] said to Avigayil [my father is joy] , Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , which sent youi this day to meet me:

³³And Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] youi advice, and Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] youi , which have kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

³⁴For in very deed, [as] the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] lives, which has kept me back from hurting youi , except youi had hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Naval [fool] by the morning light any that pisses against the wall.

³⁵So David [beloved] received of her hand [that] which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to youi house; see, I have listened to youi voice, and have accepted youi person.

³⁶And Avigayil [my father is joy] came to Naval [fool] ; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Naval [fool] ’s heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

³⁷But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Naval [fool] , and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became [as] a stone.

³⁸And it came to pass about ten days [after] , that the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) struck Naval [fool] , that he died.

³⁹And when David [beloved] heard that Naval [fool] was dead, he said, Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [be] the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , that has pleaded the cause of my reproach (disgrace; shame) from the hand of Naval [fool] , and has kept his servant from evil: for the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has returned the wickedness of Naval [fool] upon his own head. And David [beloved] sent and communed with Avigayil [my father is joy] , to take her to him to wife.

⁴⁰And when the servants of David [beloved] were come to Avigayil [my father is joy] to Carmel [Garden-land] , they spoke unto her, saying, David [beloved] sent us unto youi , to take youi to him to wife.

⁴¹And she arose, and bowed herself on [her] face to the earth, and said, Behold, [let] youri female servant [be] a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

⁴²And Avigayil [my father is joy] hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five female servants of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David [beloved] , and became his wife.

⁴³David [beloved] also took Achino’am [my brother is delight] of Yizre’el [God Sows] ; and they were also both of them his wives.

⁴⁴But Sha’ul [desired] had given Mikhal [who is like God?] his daughter, David’s [beloved] ’s wife, to Palti [my deliverance] the son of Layish [Lion] , which [was] of Gallim [springs] .