1 Samuel 25:36-42

New American Standard Bible

³⁶ Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was having ^(A)a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was cheerful within him, ^(B)for he was very drunk; so ^(C)she did not tell him anything ^[a]at all until the morning light. ³⁷ But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became like a stone. ³⁸ About ten days later, ^(D)the Lord struck Nabal and he died.

David Marries Abigail

³⁹ When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has ^(E)pleaded the cause of the shame inflicted on me by the hand of Nabal, and ^(F)has kept back His servant from evil. The Lord has also returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent ^[b](G)a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife. ⁴⁰ When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.” ⁴¹ And she got up ^(H)and bowed with her face to the ground, and said, “Behold, your slave is a servant ^(I)to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.” ⁴² Then ^(J)Abigail got up quickly, and rode on a donkey, with her five female attendants who ^[c]accompanied her; and she followed the messengers of David and became his wife.