1SA 25:14-19 ESV
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them. Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them. They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.” Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
This woman amazes me to have spent her married life entirely with a worthless man. Yet she remains a woman of compassion and of integrity. Makes me ask this, how could Nabal, her husband, remain with such a woman for all of his days and yet remain so very worthless. I suppose that it is the same way in which she stays with him until now and remains untainted by him.
After he is unkind to David and indeed to his wife, he suddenly dies and she becomes the wife of David. Now that’s irony.
A walk in the Word 