Abigail

Abigail

Spouse

David· Nabal

Children

Chileab

• אֲבִיגַ֫יִל, אֲבִיגַ֫ל·Abigail

Includes 8 verses that refer to Abigail without naming them, as “he”, “she”, or the subject of a verb.

1. 1 Samuel 25:3
   His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.
2. 1 Samuel 25:14
   Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed at them.
3. 1 Samuel 25:17Referred to, not named
   Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
4. 1 Samuel 25:18
   Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
5. 1 Samuel 25:19Referred to, not named
   …and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
6. 1 Samuel 25:20Referred to, not named
   As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.
7. 1 Samuel 25:23
   When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.
8. 1 Samuel 25:24Referred to, not named
   She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant.
9. 1 Samuel 25:32
   Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!
10. 1 Samuel 25:33Referred to, not named
    Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.
11. 1 Samuel 25:34Referred to, not named
    Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”
12. 1 Samuel 25:35Referred to, not named
    Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him, and he said to her, “Go home in peace. See, I have heeded your voice and granted your request.”
13. 1 Samuel 25:36
    When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
14. 1 Samuel 25:39
    On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.
15. 1 Samuel 25:40
    When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, “David has sent us to take you as his wife.”
16. 1 Samuel 25:41Referred to, not named
    She arose, bowed facedown, and said, “Here is your servant, ready to serve and to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”
17. 1 Samuel 25:42
    So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.
18. 1 Samuel 27:3
    David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.
19. 1 Samuel 30:5
    David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.
20. 2 Samuel 2:2
    So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
21. 2 Samuel 3:3
    …his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;
22. 1 Chronicles 3:1
    These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second was Daniel by Abigail of Carmel;