1 Samuel 25:42

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Abigail quickly got on a donkey, accompanied by five of her young women as attendants. She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

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  • Gen 24:61-67 : 61 Then Rebekah and her young women got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed. 62 Now Isaac had come from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev. 63 He went out to meditate in the field toward evening. As he looked up, he saw camels approaching. 64 Rebekah also looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she got down from the camel. 65 She said to the servant, 'Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?' The servant replied, 'He is my master.' So she took her veil and covered herself. 66 Then the servant recounted to Isaac everything he had done. 67 Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. She became his wife, and he loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
  • Ps 45:10-11 : 10 Daughters of kings are among your noble women; at your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir. 11 Listen, daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house.

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  • 1 Sam 25:39-41
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    85%

    39When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, 'Blessed be the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for insulting me, and has kept me, his servant, from wrongdoing. The Lord has brought Nabal’s wickedness upon his own head.' Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.

    40David’s servants went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, 'David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.'

    41Abigail got up, bowed with her face to the ground, and said, 'Here is your servant, ready to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.'

  • 1 Sam 25:23-25
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    23When Abigail saw David, she hurriedly dismounted from her donkey, fell facedown at David’s feet, and bowed to the ground with deep respect.

    24She fell at his feet and said, "My lord, let the blame be on me alone. Please let your servant speak to you, and hear the words of your servant.

    25Please, my lord, pay no attention to this worthless man Nabal. He is exactly what his name suggests—his name means ‘fool,’ and folly goes with him. But I, your servant, did not see the men my lord sent.

  • 1 Sam 25:18-20
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    18Then Abigail quickly gathered two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred pressed fig cakes, and she loaded them on donkeys.

    19She said to her servants, "Go ahead of me; I will follow you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

    20As she was riding her donkey down into a ravine, David and his men were descending toward her, and she met them.

  • 1 Sam 30:5
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    5Both of David’s wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.

  • 1 Sam 25:35-37
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    35Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought to him and said, 'Go home in peace. See, I have listened to your words and granted your request.'

    36When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk, so she told him nothing at all until daybreak.

    37Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him, and he became like a stone.

  • 1 Sam 25:43
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    43David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both women became his wives.

  • 2 Sam 2:2
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    2So David went up there, along with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

  • 1 Sam 25:13-14
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    13David said to his men, "Each of you, strap on your sword!" So they did, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men went with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

    14One of Nabal’s young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, "David sent messengers from the wilderness to bless our master, but he screamed insults at them.

  • 1 Sam 25:3-5
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    3The man’s name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail. She was intelligent and beautiful, but Nabal, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

    4While in the wilderness, David heard that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

    5David sent ten young men and instructed them, "Go to Carmel, find Nabal, and greet him on my behalf.

  • 1 Sam 27:3
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    3David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each with their households, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel.

  • 1 Sam 25:31-33
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    31my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the Lord has brought my lord success, remember your servant.

    32David said to Abigail, 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me.

    33Blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

  • Judg 19:3
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    3Then her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He took with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. When he arrived at her father’s house, the woman’s father saw him and was glad to welcome him.

  • Gen 24:61
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    61Then Rebekah and her young women got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

  • 2 Kgs 4:24
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    24Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, "Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you."

  • 2 Sam 3:16
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    16But her husband followed her, weeping as he went, all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, 'Go back home.' So he returned.

  • 2 Sam 11:27
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    27After the mourning was over, David sent for her and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 2:21
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    21So she said, 'Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to your brother Adonijah as his wife.'

  • Judg 19:28
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    28He said to her, "Get up, let us go." But there was no answer. So he put her on the donkey, and the man set out for home.

  • 1 Kgs 2:40
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    40he saddled his donkey and went to Achish in Gath to search for them. He brought his servants back from Gath.

  • 1 Chr 2:29
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    29Abishur’s wife was named Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.

  • 2 Sam 11:4-5
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    4So David sent messengers, took her, and she came to him. He slept with her while she was purifying herself from her uncleanness. Then she returned to her house.

    5The woman conceived and sent a message to David, saying, 'I am pregnant.'

  • Josh 15:18
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    18When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she dismounted from her donkey, Caleb asked her, 'What do you want?'

  • 1 Sam 18:26-27
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    26When Saul’s servants told David these words, it pleased David to become the king’s son-in-law. However, the allotted time had not yet passed.

    27So David arose and went out with his men, and they struck down two hundred Philistines. David brought their foreskins and presented the full number to the king so that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

  • 1 Chr 2:17
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    17Abigail gave birth to Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

  • Judg 1:14
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    14When she came to him, she persuaded him to ask her father for a field. She got down from her donkey, and Caleb asked her, "What do you want?"

  • 1 Sam 25:9
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    9When David’s young men arrived, they delivered this message to Nabal in David’s name and waited.

  • 2 Sam 3:14
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    14Then David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, son of Saul, to say, 'Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a payment of one hundred Philistine foreskins.'

  • 2 Sam 17:24
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  • 1 Sam 18:19
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    19But when the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she was given instead to Adriel of Meholah in marriage.

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  • Gen 24:51
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    51Here is Rebekah; take her and go. Let her become the wife of your master's son, as the Lord has spoken.

  • 2 Sam 3:20
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    20When Abner came to David at Hebron with twenty men, David prepared a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.

  • 1 Sam 25:27
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    27Now let this gift that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.