38. About 10 days later, the Lord struck Nabal dead.
39. When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise the Lord who championed my cause against Nabal’s insults and restrained His servant from doing evil. The Lord brought Nabal’s evil deeds back on his own head.” Then David sent messengers to speak to Abigail about marrying him.
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, then bowed her face to the ground and said, “Here I am, your servant, to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”
42. Then Abigail got up quickly, and with her five female servants accompanying her, rode on the donkey following David’s messengers. And so she became his wife.
43. David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and the two of them became his wives.
44. But Saul gave his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.