Reference: Abigail,
Hastings
1. Wife of Nabal (1Sa 25:14). She dissuaded David from avenging himself on the surly farmer, and soon after the latter's death married David (1Sa 25:39-42), and accompanied him to Gath and Ziklag (1Sa 27:3; 30:5,18). At Hebron she bore him a son, whose name may have been Chileab (2Sa 3:3), or Daniel (1Ch 3:1), or Dodiel (the Septuagint at 2Sa 3:3 has Daluya). 2. Step-sister of David, mother of Amasa (2Sa 17:25; 1Ch 2:16 f.).
J. Taylor.
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But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, and he scorned them.
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 back His servant from evil The LORD has also returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head " Then David sent a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife. When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you to take you as his wife." read more. She arose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Behold, your maidservant is a maid to wash the feet of my lord's servants." Then Abigail quickly arose, and rode on a donkey, with her five maidens who attended her; and she followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's widow.
Now David's two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite.
So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and rescued his two wives.
and his second, Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;
and his second, Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;
Absalom set Amasa over the army in place of Joab Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.