^{24 Ref} And falling at his feet she said, May the wrong be on me, my lord, on me: let your servant say a word to you, and give ear to the words of your servant.

^{25 Ref} Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.

^{26 Ref} So now, my lord, by the living God and by your living soul, seeing that the Lord has kept you from the crime of blood and from taking into your hands the punishment for your wrongs, may all your haters, and those who would do evil to my lord, be like Nabal.

^{27 Ref} And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.

^{28 Ref} And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.

^{29 Ref} And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.

^{30 Ref} And when the Lord has done for my lord all those good things which he has said he will do for you, and has made you a ruler over Israel;

^{31 Ref} Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.

^{32 Ref} And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:

^{33 Ref} A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.

^{34 Ref} For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.

^{35 Ref} Then David took from her hands her offering: and he said to her, Go back to your house in peace; see, I have given ear to your voice, and taken your offering with respect.

^{36 Ref} And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.

^{37 Ref} And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.

^{38 Ref} And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.

^{39 Ref} And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.

^{40 Ref} And when David's servants came to Carmel, to Abigail, they said to her, David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.

^{41 Ref} And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.

^{42 Ref} Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.

^{43 Ref} And David had taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, to be his wife; these two were his wives.

^{44 Ref} Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish of Gallim.