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1 Samuel 25:43
David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So she and Abigail were both his wives.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records David’s marital status immediately after Abigail’s submission and just before Saul politically redistributes Michal. This placement closes the Nabal narrative and documents a factual shift in David’s household.
The words — לָקַח (la.Kach) means “he had taken,” and שְתֵי (she.tei) means “both of them,” anchoring the passage in a straightforward accounting of two women now bound to David.
The thread — The text later confirms this dual marriage when Ahinoam and Abigail are captured in 1 Samuel 30:5, and notes David’s continued status with both wives while living in Gath at 1 Samuel 27:3.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to track the concrete expansion of David’s household as a direct consequence of Abigail’s intervention, treating polygamy as a recorded social reality rather than a theological model.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
Cross-references
- Joshua 15:56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
- 1 Samuel 27:3 David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.
- 1 Samuel 30:5 David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.
- 2 Samuel 3:2 And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;
- Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
- 2 Samuel 5:13 After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
- Matthew 19:5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
- Matthew 19:8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart. But it was not this way from the beginning.