Ahinoam

And from the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

So David sent and inquired about the woman, and one said, 'Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?' David sent messengers and took her.

And when she came to him, he lay with her.

And when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will make me happier." Somehow, David thought seven wives were not enough.

He wanted another woman.

He wanted an eighth wife.

Sin is so shortsighted.

So David and his men came to the city, and there it was burned with fire, and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive.

Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no more power to weep." David's two wives, Ahinoam and Abigail, had been taken, and David was greatly distressed.

Not only had he lost greatly, but now another problem was developing.

The people were blaming him.

David and his men and their families settled there with Achish of Gath.

David brought his two wives along with him, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal's widow from Carmel.

And the word soon reached Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped hunting for him." Fear had shifted David's source of security.

Instead of waiting on God to deliver him like he had multiple times before, he began building his own safety, and that place was with King Achish of Gath.

So David said, where shall I go? And he said to Hebron.

So David went up there and his two wives, also Ahinoam, the Jezreelitess and Abigail, the widow of Nabal, the Carmelite.

And David brought up his men who were with him, each with his household.

And they lived in the cities of Hebron.

Then David and the men who were with him lifted their voices and wept, until there was no strength in them to weep.

Now David's two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite.

Moreover, David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all the people were embittered, each one because of his sons and daughters." And David now has hit rock bottom.

Some years ago, I watched the documentary by Ken Burns called Baseball.

Abigail quickly got on a donkey and attended by her five female servants, went with David's messengers and became his wife.

David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel and they were both his wives.

But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Paltiel, son of Laish, who was from Galim.

This is the word of the Lord.

The Amalekites have violently taken all the women and children captive.

Abigail and Ahinoam are entirely gone.

David's exhausted men look directly at the smoldering ruins of their homes and angrily begin speaking of stoning him.

David has totally lost his home, his precious family, his possessions, and for a terrifying moment, the complete loyalty of his own men.

He seeks God's face about going into a city of Judah.

Verse 2, So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.

And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household, and they dwelt in the cities.

of hebron all right so david takes his crowd basically and they go to hebron all right verse four it says the men of judah came and there they anointed david so this is david being anointed again he was anointed by samuel now he's anointed by the men of judah the elders They anoint David king over the house of Judah.

So Michal is back in Gibeah.

Then there is Ahinoam.

There is Abigail, the widow of Nabal.

There is Maacah, Haggith, Abital, Eglah.

Now, these are not hugely important except for their sons.

So I just, if you're making notes, Ahinoam, her son is Amnon.

If you can just mark that name down.

Maacah, her son is Absalom.