CLV(i)
28 `Bear, I pray you, with the transgression of your handmaid, for Yahweh does certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Yahweh has my lord fought, and evil is not found in you [all] your days.
29 And man rises to pursue you and to seek your soul, and the soul of my lord has been bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your Elohim; as to the soul of your enemies, He does sling them out in the midst of the hollow of the sling.
30 `And it has been, when Yahweh does to my lord according to all the good which He has spoken concerning you, and appointed you for leader over Israel,
31 that this is not to you for a stumbling-block, and for an offence of heart to my lord--either to shed blood for nought, or my lord's restraining himself; and Yahweh has done good to my lord, and you have remembered your handmaid..
32 And David said to Abigail, `Blessed [is] Yahweh, Elohim of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me,
33 and blessed [is] your discretion, and blessed [are] you in that you have restrained me this day from coming in with blood, and to restrain my hand to myself.
34 And yet, Yahweh lives, Elohim of Israel, who has kept me back from doing evil with you, for unless you hadst hasted, and do come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal till the light of the morning, of those sitting on the wall..
35 And David receives from her hand that which she has brought to him, and to her he has said, `Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and accept your face..
36 And Abigail comes in unto Nabal, and lo, he has a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal [is] glad within him, and he [is] drunk unto excess, and she has not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.
37 And it comes to pass in the morning, when the wine is gone out from Nabal, that his wife declares to him these things, and his heart dies within him, and he has been as a stone.
38 And it comes to pass, [in] about ten days, that Yahweh smites Nabal, and he dies,
39 and David hears that Nabal [is] dead, and said, `Blessed [is] Yahweh who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant has kept back from evil, and the wickedness of Nabal has Yahweh turned back on his own head;' and David sends and speaks with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife.
40 And the servants of David come in unto Abigail at Carmel, and speak unto her, saying, `David has sent us unto you to take you to him for a wife..
41 And she rises and bows herself--face to the earth--and said, `Lo, your handmaid [is] for a maid-servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord..
42 And Abigail hastes and rises, and rides on the ass; and five of her young women who are going at her feet; and she goes after the messengers of David, and is to him for a wife.
43 And Ahinoam has David taken from Jezreel, and they are--even both of them--to him for wives;"
44 and Saul gave Michal his daughter, wife to David, to Phalti son of Laish, who [is] of Gallim.