38. About ten days later, Adonai struck Nabal and he died.
39. When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be Adonai who took the case of my insult from the hand of Nabal, yet has restrained His servant from evil! Adonai has returned Nabal’s vileness on his own head.” Then David sent word and proposed to Abigail to take her as his wife.
40. When David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they told her, “David has sent us to you, to take you as his wife.”
41. So she rose, bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
42. Then Abigail rose quickly and mounted a donkey, with five of her maidens following her, following David’s messengers, and she became his wife.
43. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and the two of them were his wives.
44. Meanwhile Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was of Gallim.