1 Samuel 25:43
◄  1 Samuel 25:43  ►
New International Version (©2011)
David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives.

New Living Translation (©2007)
David also married Ahinoam from Jezreel, making both of them his wives.

English Standard Version (©2001)
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and the two of them became his wives.

International Standard Version (©2012)
David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives.

NET Bible (©2006)
David had also married Ahinoam from Jezreel; the two of them became his wives.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. Both she and Abigail were his wives.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

American King James Version
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

American Standard Version
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both of them his wives.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover David took also Achinoam of Jezrahel: and they were both of them his wives.

Darby Bible Translation
David had also taken Ahinoam of Jizreel; and they became, even both of them, his wives.

English Revised Version
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both of them his wives.

Webster's Bible Translation
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

World English Bible
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

Young's Literal Translation
And Ahinoam hath David taken from Jezreel, and they are -- even both of them -- to him for wives;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:39-44 Abigail believed that David would be king over Israel, and greatly esteemed his pious and excellent character. She deemed his proposal of marriage honourable, and advantageous to her, notwithstanding his present difficulties. With great humility, and doubtless agreeably to the customs of those times, she consented, being willing to share his trails. Thus those who join themselves to Christ, must be willing now to suffer with him, believing that hereafter they shall reign with him.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 43, 44. - Besides Abigail, David also took to wife Ahinoam of Jezreel, a small village among the hills of Judah (Joshua 15:56), and not the better known town of that name in the tribe of Issachar. Ahinoam was the name also of Saul's wife (1 Samuel 14:50). They were also...his wives. I.e. besides Michal. She had been given by Saul to Phalti the son of Laish, called Phaltiel in 2 Samuel 3:15, where we read of his lamentation at her being torn from him by Ishbosheth in order that she might be restored to David. Gallim is described in Isaiah 10:30 as being situated between Gibeah of Saul and Jerusalem.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel,.... A city in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:56; that is, he took her to wife, and as it seems before Abigail became his wife; see 2 Samuel 3:2,

and they were also both of them his wives; polygamy, though not agreeably to the law of nature, nor the law of God, was a custom which prevailed in those times, which good men gave into, though not to be commended for it.

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David Marries Abigail
…42And Abigail hurried, and arose and rode on an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. 43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives. 44But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

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 had been captured--Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
2 Samuel 2:2 So David went up there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
2 Samuel 3:2 Sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon the son of Ahinoam of Jezreel;