1 Samuel 25:42

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Abigail hurried and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five maids accompanying her; so she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.

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  • Gen 24:61-67 : 61 Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed. 62 Now Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi, for he dwelt in the south. 63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming. 64 Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from her camel; 65 for she had said to the servant, "Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?" The servant had said, "It is my master." Therefore she took a veil and covered herself. 66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Ps 45:10-11 : 10 Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget your own people, and your father's house; 11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and you shall worship him.

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  • 1 Sam 25:39-41
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    85%

    39And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil; for the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke with Abigail, to take her to him as a wife.

    40And when the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David sent us to you, to take you to him as a wife.

    41And she arose and bowed herself with her face to the ground, and said, Behold, let your maidservant be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

  • 1 Sam 25:23-25
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    84%

    23When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got off the donkey and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

    24And she fell at his feet and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be; and let your maidservant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant.

    25Please do not let my lord regard this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

  • 1 Sam 25:18-20
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    18Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, two skins of wine, five sheep already prepared, five measures of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

    19And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

    20And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the hill, behold, David and his men were coming down toward her, and she met them.

  • 1 Sam 30:5
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    5And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

  • 1 Sam 25:35-37
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    76%

    35So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to your house; see, I have listened to your voice and respected your person.

    36And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light.

    37But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became like a stone.

  • 1 Sam 25:43
    75%

    43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and so both of them were his wives.

  • 2 Sam 2:2
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    2So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

  • 1 Sam 25:13-14
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    13And David said to his men, Each of you gird on his sword. And each one girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

    14But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed on them.

  • 1 Sam 25:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3Now the man's name was Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail; and she was a woman of good understanding and beautiful appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his deeds; he was from the house of Caleb.

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

    5And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name;

  • 1 Sam 27:3
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    3And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal's wife.

  • 1 Sam 25:31-33
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    31that this will be no grief to you, nor a cause of remorse of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your maidservant.

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

    33And blessed is your advice, and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand.

  • Judg 19:3
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    3And her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, having his servant with him and a pair of donkeys. She brought him into her father's house, and when the young woman’s father saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

  • Gen 24:61
    71%

    61Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

  • 2 Kgs 4:24
    70%

    24Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; do not slacken your pace for me, unless I tell you.

  • 2 Sam 3:16
    70%

    16And her husband went with her, weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, Go, return. And he returned.

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:21
    69%

    21And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as his wife.

  • Judg 19:28
    69%

    28He said to her, "Get up, let us be going." But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey, and the man rose up and went to his place.

  • 1 Kgs 2:40
    69%

    40So Shimei arose, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to seek his servants; and Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath.

  • 1 Chr 2:29
    68%

    29And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.

  • 2 Sam 11:4-5
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    68%

    4Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house.

    5And the woman conceived, so she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

  • Josh 15:18
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    18And it happened, as she came to him, that she persuaded him to ask her father for a field: and she dismounted from her donkey; and Caleb said to her, What do you desire?

  • 1 Sam 18:26-27
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    68%

    26And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law: and before the days had expired,

    27Therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.

  • 1 Chr 2:17
    68%

    17And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

  • Judg 1:14
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    14And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she urged him to ask her father for a field; and she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, What do you wish?

  • 1 Sam 25:9
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    9And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and then they stopped.

  • 2 Sam 3:14
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    14And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

  • 2 Sam 17:24
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  • 1 Sam 30:18
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  • 1 Sam 18:19
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    19But it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
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    13And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.

  • 1 Kgs 1:3
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    3So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

  • Gen 24:51
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    51Here is Rebekah before you; take her and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the LORD has spoken."

  • 2 Sam 3:20
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    20So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.

  • 1 Sam 25:27
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    27And now this blessing, which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.