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When David had said this, he dismissed the woman. But when she came
home and found her husband feasting with a great company, and oppressed
with wine, she said nothing to him then about what had happened; but on
the next day, when he was sober, she told him all the particulars, and
made his whole body to appear like that of a dead man by her words, and
by that grief which arose from them; so Nabal survived ten days, and no
more, and then died. And when David heard of his death, he said that God
had justly avenged him of this man, for that Nabal had died by his own
wickedness, and had suffered punishment on his account, while he had kept
his own hands clean. At which time he understood that the wicked are prosecuted
by God; that he does not overlook any man, but bestows on the good what
is suitable to them, and inflicts a deserved punishment on the wicked.
So he sent to Nabal's wife, and invited her to come to him, to live with
him, and to be his wife. Whereupon she replied to those that came, that
she was not worthy to touch his feet; however, she came, with all her servants,
and became his wife, having received that honor on account of her wise
and righteous course of life. She also obtained the same honor partly on
account of her beauty. Now David had a wife before, whom he married from
the city Abesar; for as to Michal, the daughter of king Saul, who had been
David's wife, her father had given her in marriage to Phalti, the son of
Laish, who was of the city of Gallim.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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