1 Samuel 25:43
New International Version
David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives.

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So she and Abigail were both his wives.

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

New King James Version
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and so both of them were his wives.

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

NASB 1995
David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives.

NASB 1977
David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives.

Legacy Standard Bible
David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives.

Amplified Bible
David had also taken Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both became his wives.

Christian Standard Bible
David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and the two of them became his wives.

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And David had taken Akhinam from Yizrael, and the two of them were wives to him

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And David took Achinaam out of Jezrael, and they were both his wives.

Contemporary English Version
David had earlier married Ahinoam from the town of Jezreel, so both she and Abigail were now David's wives.

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

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

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

Good News Translation
David had married Ahinoam from Jezreel, and now Abigail also became his wife.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both of them his wives.

Literal Standard Version
And David has taken Ahinoam from Jezreel, and they are—even both of them—for wives to him;

Majority Standard Bible
David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So she and Abigail were both his wives.

New American Bible
David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. Thus both of them were his wives.

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

New Revised Standard Version
David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel; both of them became his wives.

New Heart English Bible
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became 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;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
David Marries Abigail
42So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife. 43David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So she and Abigail were both his wives. 44But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.…

Cross References
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, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.

2 Samuel 2:2
So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

2 Samuel 3:2
And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;


Treasury of Scripture

David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

Jezreel

Joshua 15:56
And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

2 Samuel 3:2
And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

both

Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Matthew 19:5,8
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? …

his wives

1 Samuel 27:3
And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

1 Samuel 30:5
And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

2 Samuel 5:13-16
And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David…

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1 Samuel 25
1. Samuel dies
2. David in Paran sends to Nabal
10. Provoked by Nabal's rudeness, he minds to destroy him
14. Abigail understanding thereof
18. takes a present
23. and by her wisdom
32. pacifies David
36. Nabal hearing thereof, dies
39. David takes Abigail and Ahinoam to be his wives
44. Michal is given to Phalti














(43) David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel.--Jezreel is not the city in Issachar (Joshua 19:18), but a town in the southern part of Canaan, situate in the hill country of Judah, near Maon. The fatal results of this disastrous and unhappy Oriental custom of polygamy, as time went on, showed themselves in King David's household--a plentiful crop of intrigues, crimes, and murders in the royal palace were the sad fruits of his yielding to the miserable practice, which has ever been one of the curses of the East.

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.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
David
דָּוִ֖ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

had also
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

married
לָקַ֥ח (lā·qaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

Ahinoam
אֲחִינֹ֛עַם (’ă·ḥî·nō·‘am)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 293: Ahinoam -- 'my brother is delight', two Israelite women

of Jezreel.
מִֽיִּזְרְעֶ֑אל (mî·yiz·rə·‘el)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3157: Jezreel -- 'God sows', two Israelites, also two cities in Israel, also a valley in Northern Israel

So [she and Abigail] were both
שְׁתֵּיהֶ֥ן (šə·tê·hen)
Number - fdc | third person feminine plural
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

his
ל֖וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

wives.
לְנָשִֽׁים׃ (lə·nā·šîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female


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