In this video listen to 1 Samuel Chapter 25, read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In 1 Samuel Chapter 25 Samuel dies and is buried. At this point Samuel is no longer writing the book of Samuel, and may not have been doing so for the last few chapters. We know that Gad the prophet has been with David and is an eyewitness into what happens in David’s life. The rest of 1 Samuel and all of 2 Samuel are written by Gad and Nathan.

David goes to the desert of Paran and we meet Nabal and Abigail. Nabal is probably a nickname, meaning a fool and Abigail is described as beautiful. Only a small number of women are described as beautiful in the scriptures, being Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Tamar, Another Tamar, Abigail, Bath-Sheba, Abishag the Shunammite, Vashti the Queen of Persia, Esther and Job’s daughters. Abigail was a godly wom ...