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1 Samuel 25:40-44
New International Version
1 Samuel 25:40-44
New International Version
40 His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.”
41 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.” 42 Abigail(A) quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David’s messengers and became his wife. 43 David had also married Ahinoam(B) of Jezreel, and they both were his wives.(C) 44 But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel[a](D) son of Laish, who was from Gallim.(E)
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 25:44 Hebrew Palti, a variant of Paltiel
1 Samuel 25:40-44
King James Version
1 Samuel 25:40-44
King James Version
40 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.
41 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.
42 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.
43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
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