1Samuei 25:39 says, 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. After David heard that Nubul was dead, he gave thanks to the LORD for keeping him from doing evil. I don't believe that God is going to destroy our enemies just to keep us from doing evil, but I do believe that if our enemies that we may have been thinking about doing evil to are destroyed that we should praise God for it. David then communed with Abigail to take her as his wife. She had helped David and evidently had impressed him. Verse forty adds, 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. Though it said David communed with her, he sent his servants to tell her his plan to marry her. Matthew Henry says that his affairs may have kept David from being able to come himself. Verse forty-one continues, 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. Instead of going to David to become his wife, she at first humbled herself before his servants and asked that she be allowed to be his servant. She certainly had not planned to end up being David’s wife when she helped him, but had helped him to benefit Nabal as well as David. We need to be humble in our attitude about ourselves today as well, and do things that will benefit others instead of just us. Verse forty-two states, 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. After the messengers left, Abigail hurried after them with her damsels, or maids I would assume, and became David’s wife. Of course, David was married to Saul's daughter, who loved him, so I am not sure how he was able to justify marrying someone else, but the next verses do shed some light on this. I do know that God's plan is never for us to be married to two people at a time, even if it did happen in the Old Testament. Verse forty-three adds, David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. David not only married Abigail, but he married Abinoam as well. So, as we see, David no problem marrying more than one woman at a time, though he was known as a man after God's own heart and I know this was never God's plan for marriage. As followers of Christ, it is possible for us to still sin, but if we do, we should never attempt to justify it as God's will. Verse forty-four continues, But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim. As far as Michal, Saul’s daughter and David’s wife, Saul had already given her to Phalti to be his wife. Michal is the overlooked one in this story I believe. She loved David and had saved him from her father, and now David was married to someone else and so was she, but I don't believe that it was by her choice. Sometimes, we a Christians may get caught up in the actions of others that will affect us and have little say in the matter. At such times, we simply need to remain true to God.
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