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Abigail

Mentioned 1059–1047 BC traditional (Jones)

The wife of the churlish Nabal, who dwelt in the district of Carmel (1 Sam. 25:3). She showed great prudence and delicate management at a critical period of her husband’s life.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Partners
David, Nabal
Child
Daniel
Tagged in
14 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Abigail: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Abigail, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification. A dashed ring on the map marks a region, river, or mountain rather than a town.

  1. likely location: Carmel5
  2. possible location: Jezreel3
  3. likely location: Gath1
  4. location not graded: Geshur1
  5. likely location: Hebron1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1084–1022 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 3 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Abigail’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Abigail in 14 tagged verses across 3 books.

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  1. 1 Samuel11
  2. 2 Samuel2
  3. 1 Chronicles1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBAbigail 19
KJVAbigail 17
ASVAbigail 16

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

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All 14 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Samuel11 verses
  1. 25:3

    His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

  2. 25:14

    Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed at them.

  3. 25:18

    Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys

  4. 25:23

    When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.

  5. 25:32

    Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!

  6. 25:36

    When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

  7. 25:39

    On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.

  8. 25:40

    When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, “David has sent us to take you as his wife.”

  9. 25:42

    So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

  10. 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.

  11. 30:5

    David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.

2 Samuel2 verses
  1. 2:2

    So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

  2. 3:3

    his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;

1 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 3:1

    These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second was Daniel by Abigail of Carmel;

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

The wife of the churlish Nabal, who dwelt in the district of Carmel (1 Sam. 25:3). She showed great prudence and delicate management at a critical period of her husband’s life. She was “a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance.” After Nabal’s death she became the wife of David (1 Sam. 25:14-42), and was his companion in all his future fortunes (1 Sam. 27:3; 30:5; 2 Sam. 2:2). By her David had a son called Chileab (2 Sam. 3:3), elsewhere called Daniel (1 Chr. 3:1).