33. Thank God for your good sense and for what you have done today in keeping me from the crime of murder and from taking my own revenge.
34. The Lord has kept me from harming you. But I swear by the living God of Israel that if you had not hurried to meet me, all of Nabal's men would have been dead by morning!”
35. Then David accepted what she had brought him and said to her, “Go back home and don't worry. I will do what you want.”
36. Abigail went back to Nabal, who was at home having a feast fit for a king. He was drunk and in a good mood, so she did not tell him anything until the next morning.
37. Then, after he had sobered up, she told him everything. He suffered a stroke and was completely paralysed.
38. Some ten days later the Lord struck Nabal and he died.
39. When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, “Praise the Lord! He has taken revenge on Nabal for insulting me and has kept me his servant from doing wrong. The Lord has punished Nabal for his evil.”Then David sent a proposal of marriage to Abigail.
40. His servants went to her at Carmel and said to her, “David sent us to take you to him to be his wife.”
41. Abigail bowed down to the ground and said, “I am his servant, ready to wash the feet of his servants.”