Abigail

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Abigail
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Abigail (Hebrew: אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל, Standard Avigáyil Tiberian ʾĂḇîḡáyil / ʾĂḇîḡāyil ; "her Father's joy" or "fountain of joy" was the second wife of King David and the widow of Nabal the Calebite.

First encountering David when he was an outlaw leader in Judah, wisely visited David after Caleb had insulted the revel chief and dissuaded him from taking revenge on her husband. Nabal then died of natural causes, and Abigail became David's wife. She became the mother of David's son Daniel (1 Chronicles 3:1), also known as Chileab, (2 Samuel3:3) and in the Septuagint text of the Books of Samuel as Daluyah.

Identity

• The mother of Amasa. In the Book of Chronicles, and Septuagint version of the Books of Samuel, Abigail's father is identified as being Jesse, (1 Chronicles 2:13-16; 2 Samuel 17:25, LXX) and she therefore would be a half-sister of David, but in the masoretic text of the Books of Samuel her father is named Nahash; (2 Samuel 17:25). In the Book of Chronicles, Amasa's father is identified as Jether the Ishmaelite,1 Chronicles 2:17 but in the Books of Samuel, Amasa's father is identified as Ithra the Israelite (2 Samuel 17:25).

It is possible for both these women named Abigail to be different accounts of the same woman, as textual scholars regard the account in the Books of Chronicles as ultimately deriving from the Books of Samuel, and the references there to Abigail as a sister of David occur only in the passages which textual scholars attribute to the court history of David, a document which doesn't mention an Abigail as one of David's wives.

External links

• Avigail in the Biblical Encyclopedia Tanakh Profiles (Hebrew/English) See also translations of names.

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