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Bible Verses about Abigail
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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff
on 06/07/2019
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These were the sons of David born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon the son of Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second, Daniel the son of Abigail of Carmel;
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His name was Nabal and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings—he was a Calebite.
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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.
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Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah’s three sons were Abishai, Joab and Asahel.
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Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
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David’s two wives had been captured—Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
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One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them.
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Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
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So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
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When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.
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Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah’s three sons were Abishai, Joab and Asahel.
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David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it,
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and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.
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When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
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So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.
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David’s two wives had been captured—Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
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David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
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Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelek, “Bring me the ephod.” Abiathar brought it to him,
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and David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” he answered. “You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.”
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David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind.
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Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit.
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They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat—
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part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.
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David asked him, “Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?” He said, “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago.
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We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, some territory belonging to Judah and the Negev of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag.”
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David asked him, “Can you lead me down to this raiding party?” He answered, “Swear to me before God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them.”
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He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah.
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David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.
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David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.
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David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.
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his second, Kileab the son of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; the third, Absalom the son of Maakah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
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When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.
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David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.
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May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.
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Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”
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Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.”
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Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
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Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David’s messengers and became his wife.
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One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them.
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Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.
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Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
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Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”
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Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
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Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
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As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them.
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David had just said, “It’s been useless—all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.
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May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”
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When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.
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She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.
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Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.
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And now, my lord, as surely as the LORD your God lives and as you live, since the LORD has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.
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And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.
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“Please forgive your servant’s presumption. The LORD your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the LORD’s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live.
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Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the LORD your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.
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When the LORD has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel,
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my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the LORD your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.”
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David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.
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May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.
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Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”
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Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.”
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When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.
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Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.
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About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal and he died.
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When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the LORD, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.
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His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.”
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She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, “I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”
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Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David’s messengers and became his wife.
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Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
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Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
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David said to Abigail, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me.
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May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands.
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When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the LORD, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.
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His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.”
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Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.”
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The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the LORD, where the ark of God was.
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May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”
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Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.”
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“There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.
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Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.
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I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the traditions just as I passed them on to you.
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But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
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Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
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But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved.
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For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head.
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A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.
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For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;
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neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
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It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels.
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Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
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For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
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Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
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Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
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but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
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If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.
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Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the LORD your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.
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Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.
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If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.
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So David and the six hundred men with him left and went over to Achish son of Maok king of Gath.
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The boy Samuel ministered before the LORD under Eli. In those days the word of the LORD was rare; there were not many visions.
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About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal and he died.
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I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.
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Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.
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I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.
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For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
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And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
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But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
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Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need.
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But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.
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The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day to pray and to ask God for help.
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But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.
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Give the people these instructions, so that no one may be open to blame.
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Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,
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and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord’s people, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.
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As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry.
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Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge.
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Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to.
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So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.
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Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.
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If any woman who is a believer has widows in her care, she should continue to help them and not let the church be burdened with them, so that the church can help those widows who are really in need.