40. And David's servants went to Abigail at Carmel, and they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you, so that he might take you to himself as wife."
41. And rising up, she reverenced prone on the ground, and she said, "Behold, let your servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."
42. And Abigail rose up and hurried, and she climbed upon a donkey, and five girls went with her, her attendants. And she followed the messengers of David, and she became his wife.
43. Moreover, David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel. And both of them were his wives.
44. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal, the wife of David, to Palti, the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.