1 Samuel 25:37,38 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

His heart died He fainted away through the fear and horror of so great a mischief, though it was past. As one, who, having in the night galloped over a narrow plank, laid upon a broken bridge over a deep river, when in the morning he came to review it, was struck dead with the horror of the danger he had been in. The Lord smote Nabal God either inflicted some other stroke upon him, or increased his grief and fear to such a height as killed him.

1 Samuel 25:37-38

37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.