And it came to pass about ten days [after], that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
Ver. 38. About ten days after.] All which time he lay like a block in his bed, without repentance or confidence in God; but condemned of his own conscience, he went to his place without noise. Let this be a warning to drunkards.
The Lord smote Nabal, that he died.] Deadly diseases are God's strokes; and especially if they be sudden, and soon make an end of men. Hippocrates calleth the pestilence το θειον, the divine disease; and another is called morbus sacer.