Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:4 
Context1:4 Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he used to give meat portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.
1 Samuel 1:6
Context1:6 Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, 1 for the Lord had not enabled her to have children.
1 Samuel 25:14
Context25:14 But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the desert to greet 2 our lord, but he screamed at them.
1 Samuel 25:37
Context25:37 In the morning, when Nabal was sober, 3 his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed. 4
1 Samuel 25:40
Context25:40 So the servants of David went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, “David has sent us to you to bring you back to be his wife.”
1 Samuel 25:42
Context25:42 Then Abigail quickly went and mounted her donkey, with five of her female servants accompanying her. 5 She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.
1 tn Heb “and her rival wife grieved her, even [with] grief so as to worry her.”
2 tn Heb “bless.”
3 tn Heb “when the wine had gone out from Nabal.”
4 tn Heb “and his heart died within him and he became a stone.” Cf. TEV, NLT “stroke”; CEV “heart attack.” For an alternative interpretation than that presented above, see Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, “The Law of the Heart: The Death of a Fool (1 Samuel 25),” JBL 120 (2001): 401-27, who argues that a medical diagnosis is not necessary here. Instead, the passage makes a connection between the heart and the law; Nabal dies for his lawlessness.
5 tn Heb “going at her feet.”
