1 Samuel 25:39

ECB⁽ⁱ⁾ ³⁹ And David hears Nabal is dead, and he says, Blessed - Yah Veh, who pleads the plea of my reproach from the hand of Nabal; and restrains his servant from evil: for Yah Veh returns the evil of Nabal on his own head. And David sends and words with Abi Gail to take her to him to woman:

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Blessed.
1 Samuel 25:32; Judges 5:2; 2 Samuel 22:47-49; Psalms 58:10; Psalms 58:11; Revelation 19:1-4
pleaded.
Proverbs 22:23; Lamentations 3:58-60; Micah 7:9
kept his servant.
1 Samuel 25:26; 1 Samuel 25:34; Hosea 2:6; Hosea 2:7; 2 Corinthians 13:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Timothy 4:18
hath returned.
2 Samuel 3:28; 2 Samuel 3:29; 1 Kings 2:44; Esther 7:10; Psalms 7:16
to take her.It is probable that David had heard that Saul, to cut off his pretensions to the throne, had married Michal to Phalti; and this justified him in taking Abigail, it not being then unlawful for a man to have several wives. This conduct of David's corresponds with the manner in which the Oriental princes generally form their matrimonial alliances. "The king of Abyssinia," says Mr. Bruce, "sends an officer to the house where the lady lives, who announces to her that it is the king's pleasure she should remove instantly to the palace. She then dresses herself in the best manner, and immediately obeys. Thenceforward he assigns her an apartment in the palace, and gives her a house elsewhere in any part she chooses."
Proverbs 18:22; Proverbs 19:14; Proverbs 31:10; Proverbs 31:30