Who
The wife of Nabal of Carmel, “intelligent and had a beautiful face” (1 Samuel 25:3). When Nabal insulted David’s men, she went out to meet David with gifts and turned him from taking vengeance, and David blessed her: “Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness” (1 Samuel 25:33). After Nabal’s death David took her as his wife; she shared his wanderings, was captured with Ahinoam at Ziklag and rescued (1 Samuel 30:5), and bore him a son, Chileab, called Daniel in Chronicles (2 Samuel 3:3; 1 Chronicles 3:1).
Key verses
- 1 Samuel 25:3
Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.
- 1 Samuel 25:33
Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
- 1 Chronicles 3:1
Now these were the sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;
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Comments on the verses that name her.
- Augustine of Hippo, Against Lying Chapter 21
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