1 Samuel 25:32

25:32 Then David said to Abigail, “Praised ¹  be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!

1 Samuel 30:5

30:5 David’s two wives had been taken captive – Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

1 Samuel 25:3

25:3 The man’s name was Nabal, ²  and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was both wise ³  and beautiful, but the man was harsh and his deeds were evil. He was a Calebite.

1 Samuel 25:14

25:14 But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the desert to greet ⁴  our lord, but he screamed at them.

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. ⁵  She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

1 Samuel 27:3

27:3 David settled with Achish in Gath, along with his men and their families. ⁶  David had with him his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

1 Samuel 25:18

25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers ⁷  of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs ⁸  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 ⁹  and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing ¹⁰  until morning’s light.

1 Samuel 25:39

25:39 When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praised be the Lord who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! ¹¹  The Lord has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” ¹²  Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.

¹ tn Heb “blessed” (also in vv. 33, 39).

² sn The name נָבָל (Nabal) means “foolish” or “senseless” in Hebrew, and as an adjective the word is used especially of persons who have no perception of ethical or religious claims. It is an apt name for this character, who certainly typifies such behavior.

³ tn Heb “good of insight”; KJV “of good understanding”; NAB, NIV, TEV “intelligent”; NRSV “clever.”

³ tn Heb “bless.”

⁴ tn Heb “going at her feet.”

⁵ tn Heb “a man and his house.”

⁶ tn Heb “skins.”

⁷ sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.

⁷ 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.”

⁸ tn Heb “and she did not tell him a thing, small or large.”

⁸ tn Heb “who has argued the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal.”

⁹ tn Heb “his servant he has held back from evil, and the evil of Nabal the Lord has turned back on his head.”