40 When David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David sent us to bring you to him as a wife.”

41 She stood up, paid homage with her face to the ground,(A) and said, “Here I am, your servant, a slave to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”(B) 42 Then Abigail got up quickly, and with her five female servants accompanying her, rode on the donkey following David’s messengers.(C) And so she became his wife.

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