09:025:035 So David received of her hand that which
she had brought him,
and
said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see,
I have
hearkened
to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
09:025:036 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold,
he held a feast in his
house,
like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was
merry
within
him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told
him
nothing,
less or more, until the morning light.
09:025:037 But it came to pass in the morning, when
the wine was gone out
of
Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that
his
heart
died within him, and he became as a stone.
09:025:038 And it came to pass about ten days after,
that the lord smote
Nabal,
that he died.
09:025:039 And when David heard that Nabal was dead,
he said, Blessed be
the
lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach
from the
hand
of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil:
for the
lord
hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own
head.
And
David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to
him
to
wife.
09:025:040 And when the servants of David were come
to Abigail to Carmel,
they
spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to
take
thee
to him to wife.
09:025:041 And she arose, and bowed herself on her
face to the earth, and
said,
Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the
feet
of
the servants of my lord.
09:025:042 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode
upon an ass, with five
damsels
of hers that went after her; and she went after the
messengers
of David, and became his wife.
09:025:043 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and
they were also both of
them
his wives.
09:025:044 But Saul had given Michal his daughter,
David’s wife, to
Phalti
the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
09:026:001 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah,
saying, Doth not
David
hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before
Jeshimon?
09:026:002 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness
of Ziph,
having
three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek
David
in the wilderness of Ziph.
09:026:003 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah,
which is before
Jeshimon,
by the way. But David abode in the wilderness,
and
he
saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
09:026:004 David therefore sent out spies, and understood
that Saul was
come
in very deed.
09:026:005 And David arose, and came to the place
where Saul had pitched:
and
David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the
son
of
Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in
the trench,
and
the people pitched round about him.


