1 Samuel 25:42

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.

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  • Gen 24:61-67 : 61 So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his way. 62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South. 63 And when the evening was near, he went wandering out into the fields, and lifting up his eyes he saw camels coming. 64 And when Rebekah, looking up, saw Isaac, she got down from her camel, 65 And said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with it. 66 Then the servant gave Isaac the story of all he had done. 67 And Isaac took Rebekah into his tent and she became his wife; and in his love for her, Isaac was comforted after his father's death.
  • Ps 45:10-11 : 10 O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house; 11 So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

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  • 1 Sam 25:39-41
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    39 And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.

    40 And when David's servants came to Carmel, to Abigail, they said to her, David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.

    41 And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.

  • 1 Sam 25:23-25
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    23 And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him.

    24 And falling at his feet she said, May the wrong be on me, my lord, on me: let your servant say a word to you, and give ear to the words of your servant.

    25 Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.

  • 1 Sam 25:18-20
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    18 Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

    19 And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.

    20 Now while she was going down under cover of the mountain on her ass, David and his men came down against her, and suddenly she came face to face with them.

  • 1 Sam 30:5
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    5 And David's two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel, had been made prisoners.

  • 1 Sam 25:35-37
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    35 Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.

    36 And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.

    37 And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.

  • 1 Sam 25:43
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    43 And David had taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, to be his wife; these two were his wives.

  • 2 Sam 2:2
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    2 So David went there, taking with him his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel.

  • 1 Sam 25:13-14
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    13 And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

    14 But one of the young men said to Nabal's wife Abigail, David sent men from the waste land to say kind words to our master, and he gave them a rough answer.

  • 1 Sam 25:3-5
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    3 Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.

    4 And David had word in the waste land that Nabal was cutting the wool of his sheep.

    5 And David sent ten young men, and said to them, Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal, and say kind words to him in my name;

  • 1 Sam 27:3
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    3 And David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal.

  • 1 Sam 25:31-33
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    31 Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.

    32 And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:

    33 A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.

  • Judg 19:3
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    3 Then her husband got up and went after her, with the purpose of talking kindly to her, and taking her back with him; he had with him his young man and two asses: and she took him into her father's house, and her father, when he saw him, came forward to him with joy.

  • Gen 24:61
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    61 So Rebekah and her servant-women went with the man, seated on the camels; and so the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.

  • 2 Kgs 4:24
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    24 Then she made the ass ready and said to her servant, Keep driving on; do not make a stop without orders from me.

  • 2 Sam 3:16
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    16 And her husband went with her as far as Bahurim, weeping while he went. Then Abner said to him, Go back. And he went back.

  • 2 Sam 11:27
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    27 And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

  • 1 Kgs 2:21
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    21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.

  • Judg 19:28
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    28 And he said to her, Get up and let us be going; but there was no answer; so he took her up and put her on the ass, and went on his way and came to his house.

  • 1 Kgs 2:40
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    40 Then Shimei got up, and making ready his ass, he went to Gath, to Achish, in search of his servants; and he sent and got them from Gath.

  • 1 Chr 2:29
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    29 And the name of Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had Ahban and Molid by him.

  • 2 Sam 11:4-5
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    4 And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.

    5 And the woman became with child; and she sent word to David that she was with child.

  • Josh 15:18
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    18 Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it?

  • 1 Sam 18:26-27
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    26 And when his servants said these words to David, he was well pleased to be the son-in-law of the king. And the days were still not past.

    27 So David and his men got up and went, and put to death two hundred of the Philistines; and David took their private parts and gave the full number of them to the king, so that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for his wife.

  • 1 Chr 2:17
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    17 And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

  • Judg 1:14
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    14 Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it?

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    9 And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal, in David's name, and said nothing more.

  • 2 Sam 3:14
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    14 And David sent men to Saul's son Ish-bosheth, saying, Give me back Michal, my wife, whom I made mine for the price of the private parts of a hundred Philistines.

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  • 1 Sam 25:27
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    27 And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.