33. Blessed is your good judgment and blessed are you yourself. Today you have prevented me from shedding blood and rescuing myself with my own hand.
34. Otherwise, as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come so promptly to meet me, by dawn Nabal would not have had so much as one male left alive.”
35. David then took from her what she had brought him and said to her: “Go to your home in peace! See, I have listened to your appeal and have granted your request.”
36. When Abigail came to Nabal, he was hosting a banquet in his house like that of a king, and Nabal was in a festive mood and very drunk. So she said not a word to him until daybreak the next morning.
37. But then, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him what had happened. At this his heart died within him, and he became like a stone.
38. About ten days later the Lord struck Nabal and he died.
39. Hearing that Nabal was dead, David said: “Blessed be the Lord, who has defended my cause against the insult from Nabal, and who restrained his servant from doing evil, but has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds.” David then sent a proposal of marriage to Abigail.
40. When David’s servants came to Abigail in Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to make his proposal of marriage to you.”
41. Rising and bowing to the ground, she answered, “Let your maidservant be the slave who washes the feet of my lord’s servants.”
42. She got up immediately, mounted a donkey, and followed David’s messengers, with her five maids attending her. She became his wife.
43. David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. Thus both of them were his wives.
44. But Saul gave David’s wife Michal, Saul’s own daughter, to Palti, son of Laish, who was from Gallim.