1 Samuel 25:2
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| Overview - 1 Samuel 25 | |
| 1 | Samuel dies. |
| 2 | David in Paran sends to Nabal. |
| 10 | Provoked by Nabal's churlishness, he minds to destroy him. |
| 14 | Abigail understanding thereof, |
| 18 | takes a present; |
| 23 | and by her wisdom, |
| 32 | pacifies David. |
| 36 | Nabal hearing thereof, dies. |
| 39 | David takes Abigail and Ahinoam to be his wives. |
| 44 | Michal is given to Phalti. |
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1 Samuel 25:2 (King James Version)
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- Maon
- 23:24
- possessions were
- or, business was. Carmel.
- Not the famous mount Carmel, in the north of Canaan, and in the tribe of Asher; but a city, on a mountain of the same name, in the south of Judah, which seems to have given name to the surrounding territory. Eusebius and Jerome inform us, that there was in their time a town called Carmelia, ten miles east from Hebron, where the Romans kept a garrison, whose position well agrees with this Carmel.
- man
- Genesis 26:13 ; 2 Samuel 19:32 ; Psalms 17:14 ; 73:3-7 Luke 16:19-25
- three thousand
- Genesis 13:2 ; Job 1:3 ; 42:12
- shearing
- This was a very ancient custom, and appears to have been always attended with festivity. The ancient Romans, however, used to pluck off the wool from the sheep's backs; and hence a fleece was called {vellus,} a {vellendo,} from plucking it off. Pliny says, that in his time sheep were not shorn every where, but in some places the wool was still plucked off.
- Genesis 38:13 ; 2 Samuel 13:23 2 Samuel 13:24
- Carmel
- 30:5 Joshua 15:55