(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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1 Samuel 25:36–44, “And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died. And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife. 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. 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. 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. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.”
Nabal was rich and arrogant man and treated himself like a king. He had an opulent lifestyle with parties and feasts. Soon after Abigail went to save Nabal from David’s righteous anger, Nabal had a feast to celebrate his own high opinion of himself. During the feast he drunk a large amount of alcohol and was very drunk. When he woke the next morning Abigail told him everything that had happened. He realised what he had done and lost all his confidence. He fell into a morbid state and he died soon after that. The Lord had killed Nabal because he treated the Lord’s anointed with with disrespect and had blasphemed the Lord. When David heard that Nabal was dead he decided to make Abigail his wife. Even though David had paid the required bride price for Saul’s daughter Michal, Saul had arbitrarily given her away to another man as wife. In order to have the proper status as a future king David needed to have a wife and he had been impressed with Abigail when they had met on an earlier occasion. Abigail had also been sufficiently impressed with David and she went with some of her maids and married David.
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