SEV Biblia, Chapter 25:28
Y yo te ruego que perdones a tu sierva esta maldad; porque el SEÑOR de cierto hará casa firme a mi señor, por cuanto mi señor hace las guerras del SEÑOR, y mal no se ha hallado en ti en tus días.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 25:28
Verse 28. And evil hath not been found in thee] Thou hast not committed any act of this kind hitherto.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 28. I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid , etc.] The trespasses, as the Targum, either the sin of her husband, she had taken upon herself, or her boldness in troubling him with her petitions and solicitations, and even with the present she had brought: for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house ; or a firm kingdom, as the Targum; would raise him to the kingdom of Israel, and establish it in his posterity, that it should not be taken from him, as it would be from Saul: because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord ; the battles of the people of the Lord, as the Targum, of the people of Israel against the Philistines; which he had often done with success, the Lord being with him, and prospering him and therefore would firmly settle him on the throne, and continue the kingdom in his posterity: and evil hath not been found in thee [all] thy days ; no unjust action had been committed by him against his king and country, however he had been reproached and calumniated; and she hoped that therefore none would be done by him now to stain so fair a character.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 18-31 - By a present Abigail atoned for Nabal's denial of David's request. He behaviour was very submissive. Yielding pacifies great offences. Sh puts herself in the place of a penitent, and of a petitioner. She coul not excuse her husband's conduct. She depends not upon her ow reasonings, but on God's grace, to soften David, and expects that grac would work powerfully. She says that it was below him to take vengeanc on so weak and despicable an enemy as Nabal, who, as he would do him n kindness, so he could do him no hurt. She foretells the glorious end of David's present troubles. God will preserve thy life; therefore it becomes not thee unjustly and unnecessarily to take away the lives of any, especially of the people of thy God and Saviour. Abigail keep this argument for the last, as very powerful with so good a man; tha the less he indulged his passion, the more he consulted his peace an the repose of his own conscience. Many have done that in a heat, whic they have a thousand times wished undone again. The sweetness of revenge is soon turned into bitterness. When tempted to sin, we shoul consider how it will appear when we think upon it afterwards.
Original Hebrew
שׂא 5375 נא 4994 לפשׁע 6588 אמתך 519 כי 3588 עשׂה 6213 יעשׂה 6213 יהוה 3068 לאדני 113 בית 1004 נאמן 539 כי 3588 מלחמות 4421 יהוה 3068 אדני 113 נלחם 3898 ורעה 7451 לא 3808 תמצא 4672 בך מימיך׃ 3117
