1 Samuel 25:2 meaning and explanation

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.

1 Samuel 25:2, Berean Standard Bible

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The narrator introduces Nabal, a landowner whose home was in Maon and whose flocks and wealth lay at Carmel, both in the hill country of Judah. His three thousand sheep and a thousand goats place him among the prosperous, and the shearing season was a festive time when wool was gathered and workers were paid.

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