1 Samuel 25:42

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Gen 24:61-67 : 61 Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and left. 62 Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev. 63 He went out to relax in the field in the early evening. Then he looked up and saw that there were camels approaching. 64 Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel 65 and asked Abraham’s servant,“Who is that man walking in the field toward us?”“That is my master,” the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself. 66 The servant told Isaac everything that had happened. 67 Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
  • Ps 45:10-11 : 10 Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family! 11 Then the king will be attracted by your beauty. After all, he is your master! Submit to him!

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  • 1 Sam 25:39-41
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    85%

    39When 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! The LORD has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.

    40So 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.”

    41She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said,“Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

  • 1 Sam 25:23-25
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    84%

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

    24Falling at his feet, she said,“My lord, I accept all the guilt! But please let your female servant speak to you! Please listen to the words of your servant!

    25My lord should not pay attention to this wicked man Nabal. He simply lives up to his name! His name means‘fool,’ and he is indeed foolish! But I, your servant, did not see the servants my lord sent.

  • 1 Sam 25:18-20
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    79%

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

    19and said to her servants,“Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

    20Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

  • 1 Sam 30:5
    77%

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

  • 1 Sam 25:35-37
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    76%

    35Then David took from her hand what she had brought to him. He said to her,“Go back to your home in peace. Be assured that I have listened to you and responded favorably.”

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

    37In the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed.

  • 1 Sam 25:43
    75%

    43David had also married Ahinoam from Jezreel; the two of them became his wives.

  • 2 Sam 2:2
    75%

    2So David went up, along with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail, formerly the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

  • 1 Sam 25:13-14
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    13Then David instructed his men,“Each of you strap on your sword!” So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.

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

  • 1 Sam 25:3-5
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    74%

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

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

    5he sent ten servants, saying to them,“Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name.

  • 1 Sam 27:3
    74%

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

  • 1 Sam 25:31-33
    3 verses
    73%

    31Your conscience will not be overwhelmed with guilt for having poured out innocent blood and for having taken matters into your own hands. When the LORD has granted my lord success, please remember your servant.”

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

    33Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!

  • Judg 19:3
    72%

    3her husband came after her, hoping he could convince her to return. He brought with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father’s house and the girl’s father saw him, he greeted him warmly.

  • Gen 24:61
    71%

    61Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and left.

  • 2 Kgs 4:24
    70%

    24She saddled the donkey and told her servant,“Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so.”

  • 2 Sam 3:16
    70%

    16Her husband went along behind her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Finally Abner said to him,“Go back!” So he returned home.

  • 2 Sam 11:27
    70%

    27When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 2:21
    69%

    21She said,“Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”

  • Judg 19:28
    69%

    28He said to her,“Get up, let’s leave!” But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home.

  • 1 Kgs 2:40
    69%

    40So Shimei got up, saddled his donkey, and went to Achish at Gath to find his servants; Shimei went and brought back his servants from Gath.

  • 1 Chr 2:29
    68%

    29Abishur’s wife was Abihail, who bore him Ahban and Molid.

  • 2 Sam 11:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4David sent some messengers to get her. She came to him and he went to bed with her.(Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) Then she returned to her home.

    5The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying,“I’m pregnant.”

  • Josh 15:18
    68%

    18One time Achsah came and charmed her father so that she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her,“What would you like?”

  • 1 Sam 18:26-27
    2 verses
    68%

    26So his servants told David these things and David agreed to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired

    27when David, along with his men, went out and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

  • 1 Chr 2:17
    68%

    17Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

  • Judg 1:14
    68%

    14One time Achsah came and charmed her father so she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her,“What would you like?”

  • 1 Sam 25:9
    67%

    9So David’s servants went and spoke all these words to Nabal in David’s name. Then they paused.

  • 2 Sam 3:14
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    14David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand:“Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

  • 2 Sam 17:24
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    24Meanwhile David had gone to Mahanaim, while Absalom and all the men of Israel had crossed the Jordan River.

  • 1 Sam 30:18
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    18David retrieved everything the Amalekites had taken; he also rescued his two wives.

  • 1 Sam 18:19
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    19When the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
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    13David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.

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

  • Gen 24:51
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    51Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decided.”

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

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