40. When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”
41. She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
42. Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
43. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.
44. Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.