Nabal

Mpumbavu, mzao wa Kalebu aliyekaa Maoni (1 Sam. 25), yaani Maini ya sasa, maili 7 kusini-mashariki mwa Hebroni. Alikuwa “mkuu sana, naye alikuwa na kondoo 3,000 na mbuzi 1,000...lakini mtu huyo alikuwa mkatili na mwovu katika matendo yake.” Wakati wa kutangatanga kwake Daudi aliingia katika wilaya hiyo, na aliposikia kwamba Nabali alikuwa karibu kuwakata manyoya kondoo wake, alituma vijana wake kumi kuomba “cho chote kitakachokujia mkononi mwako kwa ajili ya watumishi wako.” Nabali aliikataa haja hiyo kwa matukano, akisema, “Daudi ni nani, na mwana wa Yese ni nani?” (1 Sam. 25:10, 11). Mmoja wa wachungaji waliosimama karibu na kuona jinsi wajumbe wa Daudi walivyopokewa, alimwarifu Abigaili, mkewe Nabali, ambaye mara moja alitambua hatari iliyoitishia nyumba yake. Papo hapo akaenda kambini kwa Daudi, akichukua pamoja naye vyakula tele (25:18). Aliitetea shauri lake kwa adabu na ushawishi mwingi hata hasira ya Daudi ikatulizwa, naye akamwambia, “Ahimidiwe Bwana, Mungu wa Israeli, aliyekuleta leo unikute.”

On her return she found her husband incapable from drunkenness of understanding the state of matters, and not till the following day did she explain to him what had happened. He was stunned by a sense of the danger to which his conduct had exposed him. “His heart died within him, and he became as a stone.” and about ten days after “the Lord smote Nabal that he died” (1 Sam. 25:37, 38). Not long after David married Abigail (q.v.).

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