1 Samuel 25:43

David took, Ahinoam also, out of Jezreel,—and, they two, became his wives.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

In Context

42And Abigail hastened, and mounted, and rode upon her ass, with her five damsels that used to journey at her feet,—and she went her way after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

44Saul, indeed, had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife,—to Palti, sun of Laish, who was of Gallim.

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Cross References

Joshua 15:56and Jezreel and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

1 Samuel 29:11So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines,—but, the Philistines, went up to Jezreel.

2 Samuel 2:2So David went up thither, and his two wives also,—Ahinoam, the Jezreelitess, and Abigail, wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

2 Samuel 5:13And David took him yet more concubines and wives, out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron, and there were, yet further, born unto David, sons and daughters.

Matthew 19:8He saith unto them—Moses, in view of your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives; From the beginning however, hath it not been done, thus.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 25:37-44

David Marries Abigail. ( b. c. 1057.) 36 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. 37 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. 38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal,… Read the whole commentary →

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