(NIV)
His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings – he was a Calebite.
Now the
name of the
man was
Nabal, and the
name of his
wife Abigail. The
woman was
discerning and
beautiful, but the
man was
harsh and
badly behaved;
he was a
Calebite.
(NIV)
One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, ‘David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them.
But
one of the
young men told Abigail,
Nabal’s wife, “
Behold,
David sent messengers out of the
wilderness to
greet our
master, and he
railed at
them.
(NIV)
Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
Then
Abigail made
haste and
took two hundred loaves and
two skins of
wine and
five sheep already
prepared and
five seahs of
parched grain and a
hundred clusters of raisins and
two hundred cakes of
figs, and
laid them
on donkeys.
(NIV)
When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.
When
Abigail saw David, she
hurried and got
down from the
donkey and
fell before David on her
face and
bowed to the
ground.
(NIV)
David said to Abigail, ‘Praise be to the
Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.
And
David said to
Abigail,
“
Blessed be the
Lord, the
God of
Israel,
who sent you this
day to
meet me!
(NIV)
When 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.
And
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. So she
told him
nothing at all until the
morning light.
(NIV)
When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, ‘Praise be to the
Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.’
Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.
When
David heard that
Nabal was
dead, he
said,
“
Blessed be the
Lord who has
avenged the
insult I
received at the
hand of
Nabal,
and has
kept back his
servant from
wrongdoing.
The
Lord has
returned the
evil of
Nabal on his own
head.” Then
David sent and
spoke to
Abigail, to
take her as his
wife.
(NIV)
His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, ‘David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.’
When the
servants of
David came to Abigail at
Carmel, they
said to her, “
David has
sent us
to you to
take you to him as his
wife.”
(NIV)
Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David’s messengers and became his wife.
And
Abigail hurried and
rose and
mounted a
donkey, and her
five young women attended her. She
followed the
messengers of
David and
became his
wife.
(NIV)
David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.
And
David lived with
Achish at
Gath,
he and his
men, every
man with his
household, and
David with his
two wives,
Ahinoam of
Jezreel, and
Abigail of
Carmel,
Nabal’s widow.
(NIV)
David’s two wives had been captured – Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
David’s two wives also had been taken
captive,
Ahinoam of
Jezreel and
Abigail the
widow of
Nabal of
Carmel.
(NIV)
So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
So
David went up there, and his
two wives also,
Ahinoam of
Jezreel and
Abigail the
widow of
Nabal of
Carmel.
(NIV)
his second, Kileab the son of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel;
the third, Absalom the son of Maakah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
and his
second,
Chileab, of
Abigail the
widow of
Nabal of
Carmel; and the
third,
Absalom the
son of
Maacah the
daughter of
Talmai king of
Geshur;
(NIV)
Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of Jether, an Ishmaelite who had married Abigal, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.
Now
Absalom had
set Amasa over the
army instead of
Joab.
Amasa was the
son of a
man named Ithra the
Ishmaelite,
who had
married Abigal the
daughter of
Nahash,
sister of
Zeruiah,
Joab’s mother.
(NIV)
Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah’s three sons were Abishai, Joab and Asahel.
And their
sisters were
Zeruiah and
Abigail.
The
sons of
Zeruiah:
Abishai,
Joab, and
Asahel,
three.
(NIV)
Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
Abigail bore Amasa, and the
father of
Amasa was
Jether the
Ishmaelite.
(NIV)
These were the sons of David born to him in Hebron:
the firstborn was Amnon the son of Ahinoam of Jezreel;
the second, Daniel the son of Abigail of Carmel;
These are the
sons of
David who were
born to him in
Hebron: the
firstborn,
Amnon, by
Ahinoam the
Jezreelite; the
second,
Daniel, by
Abigail the
Carmelite,
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