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.