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Utilizing the 400 indebted and discontented men who had attached themselves to him earlier (22:2), he offered protective services to the locals. In this instance, he solicited a gift from a wealthy sheep rancher of Carmel named Nabal. (This Carmel is situated in the southern Judean hills, not along the northern coastline near Haifa.) Nabal spurned David\u2019s request, belittling him (\u201cWho is this David?\u201d) and condemning him as a traitorous rebel (\u201cseems to be a rash nowadays of rebellious servants,\u201d 10). David organized his posse of 400 (!) and set out to teach Nabal a lesson (13).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter Abigail, Nabal\u2019s wife, who was described, earlier, as\u00a0 \u201cof good understanding, and of a beautiful form\u201d (3). Apprised by a servant of her husband\u2019s perfidy (14 ff.), she organized a feast and packed it on donkeys to deliver personally to David (18)\u2014all without her husband\u2019s knowledge. When they encountered one another, she implored him to spare her husband, arguing that \u201che is like his name: he is called Nabal and his behavior is a <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nebalah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (25). While the root n-b-l appears many times in Tanakh, we ought to be concerned with the particular use of the noun <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nebalah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which describes, inter alia, the rape of Dinah (Genesis 34:7) and the maltreatment of the concubine at Gibeah (Judges 20:6).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, then, it describes something outrageous and disgraceful. In essence, Abigail was saying \u201cJust look at him; what else would you expect from someone like that?\u201d Whether David was won over by the \u201cgoodness of her understanding\u201d or by the \u201cbeauty of her form,\u201d he relented and when Nabal died just ten days later of a divinely dispatched death (38), David added her to a growing string of wives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we will yet see, again, in 2 Samuel 11, when David becomes interested in a married woman, her husband\u2019s life expectancy is cut short.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Maerten van Heemskerck, <em>The Story of David and Nabal<\/em>, 16th C., British Museum \/ public domain<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":58931,"id":58931,"title":"isam25-nabal","filename":"isam25-nabal.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam25-nabal.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/whats-in-a-name-nabal-the-scoundrel-meets-his-end\/isam25-nabal\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"isam25-nabal","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":58930,"date":"2019-07-07 08:24:58","modified":"2019-07-07 08:25:06","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":779,"height":1011,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam25-nabal-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam25-nabal-231x300.jpg","medium-width":231,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam25-nabal-768x997.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":997,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam25-nabal.jpg","large-width":779,"large-height":1011,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam25-nabal.jpg","1536x1536-width":779,"1536x1536-height":1011,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam25-nabal.jpg","2048x2048-width":779,"2048x2048-height":1011,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam25-nabal.jpg","post_full_size-width":779,"post_full_size-height":1011,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/isam25-nabal-324x420.jpg","home_baner-width":324,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"What\u2019s In A Name? 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