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a woman with God’s wisdom

1 Samuel 25:39-44 (JDV)

1 Samuel 25:39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be Yahveh who championed my cause against Nabal’s insults and restrained his servant from doing evil. Yahveh brought Nabal’s evil deeds back on his own head.” Then David sent messengers to speak to Abigail about marrying him.
1 Samuel 25:40 When David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David sent us to bring you to him as a wife.”
1 Samuel 25:41 She stood up, paid homage with her face to the ground, and said, “Notice, your servant, a slave to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”
1 Samuel 25:42 Then Abigail got up quickly, and with her five female servants accompanying her, rode on the donkey following David’s messengers. And so, she became his wife.
1 Samuel 25:43 David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and the two of them became his wives.
1 Samuel 25:44 But Saul gave his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

a woman with God’s wisdom

David acknowledged that the LORD had restrained him from acting out of revenge against Nabal. He also knew Abigail’s part in that mission. She had been the means of that wisdom. He sent his servants to request her hand in marriage. It was a wise decision. He chose to marry a woman with God’s wisdom.