1 Samuel 25:36 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Like the feast of a king; as the manner was upon those solemn occasions. Sordid covetousness and vain prodigality were met together in him. She told him nothing; he being then incapable of admonition, his reason and conscience being both asleep.

1 Samuel 25:36

36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.