Carmel

³⁷ Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai son of Ezbai,

³⁸ Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar son of Hagri,

Early in the morning Samuel got up to confront Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel, and behold, he has set up a monument for himself and has turned and gone down to Gilgal.”

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

⁵ So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name

⁶ and say to him, ‘Long life to you, and peace to you and your house and to all that belongs to you.

⁷ Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.

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

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.

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

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

² And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;

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;

⁴ his fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; his fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital;

³⁵ Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,

³⁶ Igal son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,