^{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.