1 Samuel 25:1

1 Samuel 25:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
• New International Version (NIV)Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then Samuel died; and the Israelites gathered together and lamented for him, and buried him at his home in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.

Context of 1 Samuel 25:1

And Samuel died; and all Israel were gathered together, and lamented him; and they buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. 2And there was a man at Maon, whose business was at Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep at Carmel. 3And the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 25:1 word by word

וַיָּ֣מָת שְׁמוּאֵ֔ל וַיִּקָּבְצ֤וּ כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ וַיִּסְפְּדוּ־ל֔וֹ וַיִּקְבְּרֻ֥הוּ בְּבֵית֖וֹ בָּרָמָ֑ה וַיָּ֣קָם דָּוִ֔ד וַיֵּ֖רֶד אֶל־מִדְבַּ֥ר פָּארָֽן׃ סRead the interlinear

• Samuelשְׁמוּאֵלshemû'êl · SamuelH8050
• diedמוּתmûth · to dieH4191
• Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• gatheredקָבַץqâbats · to gatherH6908
• lamentedסָפַדsâphad · to mournH5594
• buriedקָבַרqâbar · to buryH6912
• houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• Ramahרָמָהrâmâh · RamahH7414
• Davidדָּוִדdâvid dâvîyd · DavidH1732
• aroseקוּםqûm · to arise: riseH6965
• wentיָרַדyârad · to go downH3381
• wildernessמִדְבָּרmidbâr · wildernessH4057
• Paranפָּארָןpâ'rân · ParanH6290

Cross-references for 1 Samuel 25:1

• 1 Samuel 28:3(Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and they had buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away the necromancers and the soothsayers out of the land.)
• Genesis 50:11And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, and they said, This is a grievous mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
• Numbers 20:29And the whole assembly saw that Aaron was dead, and they mourned for Aaron thirty days, [even] the whole house of Israel.
• Deuteronomy 34:8And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
• Acts 8:2And pious men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.
• 1 Samuel 7:17And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house, and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar to Jehovah.
• 1 Kings 2:34And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him, and put him to death; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
• 2 Chronicles 33:20And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
• Isaiah 14:18— All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house;
• Genesis 14:6and the Horites on their mount Seir, to El-Paran, which is by the wilderness.
• Genesis 21:21And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
• Numbers 10:12And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stood still in the wilderness of Paran.
• Numbers 12:16And afterwards the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
• Numbers 13:3And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran: according to the commandment of Jehovah, all of them heads of the children of Israel.
• Psalms 120:5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

Commentaries on 1 Samuel 25:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1And Samuel died - Samuel lived, as is supposed, about ninety-eight years; was in the government of Israel before Saul from sixteen to twenty years; and ceased to live, according to the Jews, about four months before the death of Saul; but according to Calmet and others, two years. But all this is very uncertain; how long he died before Saul, cannot be ascertained. For some account of his character, see the end of the chapter, 1 Samuel 25:44; (note)…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1In his house at Ramah - Probably in the court or garden attached to his dwelling-house. (Compare 2 Chronicles 33:20; 2 Kings 21:18; John 19:41.) The wilderness of Paran - The Septuagint has the far more probable reading “Maon.” The wilderness of Paran lay far off to the south, on the borders of the wilderness of Sinai Numbers 10:12; 1 Kings 11:18, whereas the following verse 1 Samuel 25:2 shows that the scene is laid in the immediate neighborhood of Maon…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Death of Samuel. (1) David's request; Nabal's churlish refusal. (2-11) David's intention to destroy Nabal. (12-17) Abigail takes a present to David. (18-31) He is pacified, Nabal dies. (32-39) David takes Abigail to wife. (39-44) Verse 1 All Israel lamented Samuel, and they had reason. He prayed daily for them. Those have hard hearts, who can bury faithful ministers without grief; who do not feel their loss of those who have prayed for them, and taught…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1Paran: According to the Masoretic Text, David went to the wilderness of Paran after Samuel’s death. The Septuagint instead reads Maon, which fits better with the following story set in the Maon/Carmel area of Judah. This town in southern Judah (see study note on 1 Samuel 23:24) was probably Nabal’s home. The wilderness of Paran itself lay much farther south, in the northern Sinai near Kadesh-barnea, and is elsewhere described as a place of refuge (Genesis…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-91Sa 25:1-9. Samuel Dies. 1. Samuel died--After a long life of piety and public usefulness, he left behind him a reputation which ranks him among the greatest of Scripture worthies. buried him in his house at Ramah--that is, his own mausoleum. The Hebrews took as great care to provide sepulchers anciently as people do in the East still, where every respectable family has its own house of the dead. Often this is in a little detached garden, containing a…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Samuel 25:1

• Burial
• Paran
• Ramah
• Samuel

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• Paran
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• Ramah
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Commentaries on 1 Samuel 25

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings