28. “Please forgive the transgression of your handmaid, for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord, and evil will not be found in you all your days.
29. Even if a man rises to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord will be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God. But the lives of your enemies He will sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
30. It will be, when the Lord does for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you and has appointed you ruler over Israel,
31. that this will be no grief to you, nor an offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.”
32. David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord, God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me.
33. And blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you who have kept me this day from coming to shed blood and from avenging myself with my own hand.
34. For as the Lord, the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from injuring you, if you had not hurried to come and meet me, surely there would not have been left even one male to Nabal by the morning light.”
35. So David received from her hand what she had brought him and said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and have granted your request.”
36. Abigail came to Nabal, and he was feasting in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.
37. But in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things. And his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
38. And about ten days after that, the Lord struck Nabal and he died.
39. When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is the Lord, who has defended the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil. For the Lord has returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head.”And David sent and spoke with 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 as his wife.”
41. She arose, and bowed herself on her face to the ground, and said, “Here is your handmaid, a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
42. Abigail hurriedly arose and rode on a donkey with her five young women who attended her. And she went after the messengers of David and became his wife.
43. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel. So both of them were his wives.