1 Samuel 25:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Nabal was a very rich man who lived in Maon. He owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats, which he kept at Carmel. His wife Abigail was sensible and beautiful, but he was from the Caleb clan and was rough and mean.

Cross References

Genesis 13:2

Abram was very rich. He owned many cattle, sheep, and goats, and had a lot of silver and gold.

Genesis 26:13

and Isaac was so successful that he became very rich.

Genesis 31:19

Before Rachel left, she stole the household idols while Laban was out shearing his sheep.

Genesis 32:14

two hundred female goats and twenty males, two hundred female sheep and twenty males, thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten males.

Genesis 38:13

Tamar found out that her father-in-law Judah was going to Timnah to shear his sheep.

2 Samuel 19:32

Barzillai was eighty years old. He was very rich and had sent food to David in Mahanaim.

Job 1:3

He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pair of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and a large number of servants. He was the richest person in the East.

Job 42:12

The LORD now blessed Job more than ever; he gave him fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand pair of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.

Psalm 17:14

Use your powerful arm and rescue me from the hands of mere humans whose world won't last. You provide food for those you love. Their children have plenty, and their grandchildren will have more than enough.

Proverbs 30:22

a slave who becomes king, a fool who eats too much,

Joshua 15:55

The eighth region was in the south-eastern part of the hill country, and it had the following ten towns with their surrounding villages: Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah, Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah.

1 Samuel 15:12

Early the next morning he went to talk with Saul. Someone told him, “Saul went to Carmel, where he had a monument built so everyone would remember his victory. Then he left for Gilgal.”

1 Samuel 23:24

The people from Ziph went back ahead of Saul, and they found out that David and his men were still south of Jeshimon in the Maon Desert.

1 Samuel 30:5

David's two wives, Ahinoam and Abigail, had been taken captive with everyone else.