A marriage proposal for a helpless widow needs an answer. It is rude to reject undeserving kindness and it is unwise to deny the future King of Israel like this.
The servant waited and moments came to pass but no silent rejection in the air was heard. Abigail could not possibly believe that David although had only one encounter with her remembered all about the last words she said that betrayed her heart in front of his 600 men.
It was a bold yet truthful declaration of what she feels for David. There is no lie to be told. Abigail has endured and saved a husband whom David spared and let her live, giving Abigail the freedom and chance to live far from her truth.
Abigail must answer, she immediately bowed low with her face to the ground and said, “Your handmaid is ready to be your maidservant, to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”
Then Abigail rose quickly and mounted an ass, and with five of her maids in attendance she followed David’s messengers, and she became his wife.
As depicted in the Book of Samuel, David takes Abigail as a wife shortly after Nabal’s death. Abigail’s love for David knew no bounds, and David writes of this passionate love in his lament for Jonathan (II Sam. 1:26): “Your love was wonderful to me more than the love of women,” that is, than the love of two women, Michal and Abigail (Midrash Samuel 25:4).
Becoming the wife is a happy ending story?
Well, rosy but continuing is still deadly ahead. It is just the beginning of many more challenges because Abigail is a married woman not even divorced, and has to face issues under David's bed of roses. She is not an exception to all the pain of thorns that picked her heart. Her virtuousness will be tried 10 times harder than it was with Nabal. Abigail could only trust...
God is greater, cast more stones!
AC
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