1 Samuel 25:1

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1 Samuel 25:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.

2 Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

3 His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

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1 Samuel 28:3

Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.

Genesis 50:11

When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.

Numbers 20:29

When the whole congregation saw that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him thirty days.

Deuteronomy 34:8

The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

Acts 8:2

God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.

1 Kings 2:34

So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, struck down Joab, and killed him. He was buried at his own home in the wilderness.

2 Chronicles 33:20

And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.

Genesis 14:6

and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.

Genesis 21:21

And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Numbers 10:12

and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 12:16

After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13:3

So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,

Numbers 13:26

and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.

Psalms 120:5

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!