Discovery Box1 Samuel 11:4 
Context11:4 When the messengers went to Gibeah (where Saul lived) 1 and informed the people of these matters, all the people wept loudly. 2
1 Samuel 25:33
Context25:33 Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded 3 for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!
1 Samuel 25:37
Context25:37 In the morning, when Nabal was sober, 4 his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed. 5
1 tn Heb “to Gibeah of Saul.”
2 tn Heb “lifted their voice and wept.”
3 tn Heb “blessed.”
4 tn Heb “when the wine had gone out from Nabal.”
5 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.
