1 Samuel 25:23

25:23 When Abigail saw David, she got down quickly from the donkey, threw herself down before David, and bowed to the ground.

1 Samuel 25:40

25:40 So the servants of David went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, “David has sent us to you to bring you back to be his wife.”

1 Samuel 25:42

25:42 Then Abigail quickly went and mounted her donkey, with five of her female servants accompanying her. ¹  She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ²  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ³  of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys

1 Samuel 25:36

25:36 When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time ⁴  and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing ⁵  until morning’s light.

¹ tn Heb “going at her feet.”

¹ tn Heb “skins.”

² sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.

¹ tn Heb “and the heart of Nabal was good upon him”; NASB, NRSV “Nabal’s heart was merry within him”; NIV “he was in high spirits”; NCV, TEV “was in a good mood”; CEV “was very drunk and feeling good.”

² tn Heb “and she did not tell him a thing, small or large.”