⁸ And Abishai said to^▵ David, God has this day shut up thine enemy into thy hand; and now, let me smite him, I pray^◦ thee, with the spear, and into the earth one time^◦, and I will not do· it to him ·twice.

³⁹ And David heard that Nabal was dead, and he said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has pleaded the plea of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept·​·back his servant from evil; and the evil of Nabal has Jehovah returned upon his head. And David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her to him to wife.