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Abigail (Hebrew: אֲבִיגַיִל / אֲבִיגָיִל, Modern Avigáyil Tiberian ʾĂḇîḡáyil / ʾĂḇîḡāyil ; "my father's joy", spelled Abigal in 2 Samuel 17:25 in the American Standard Version but not in the King James Version) was the wife of Nabal; she became a wife of David after Nabal's death (1 Samuel 25). Abigail is David's second wife, after Saul's daughter, Michal, whom Saul later married to Palti, son of Laish when David went into hiding.
She became the mother of one of David's sons, who is listed in the Book of Chronicles under the name Daniel, in the Masoretic Text of the Books of Samuel as Chileab, and in the Septuagint text of 2 Samuel 3:3 as Δαλουια, Dalouia.
In the passage from 1 Samuel, Nabal demonstrates ingratitude towards David, and Abigail attempts to placate David in order to stop him taking revenge. She gives him food, and speaks to him, urging him not to "have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed" (verse 31, NIV) and reminding him that God will make him a "lasting dynasty" (verse 28). Jon Levenson calls this an "undeniable adumbration" of Nathan's prophecy in 2 Samuel 7.Alice Bach notes that Abigail pronounces a "crucial prophecy," and the Talmud regards her as one of the Tanakh's seven female prophets. Levenson, however, suggests that she "senses the drift of history" from intelligence rather than from special revelation.
Drawn in shadows
Watching, waiting, absorbing you, absorbingyou, absorbing
you but you'll never know!
I belong to the dark, I exist in the dark
Hidden by a veil of nothingness Veiled by nothingness
I WAS BORN ALONE AND I'LL DIE ALONE
Grasping for signs of life Confined by a mental hell
LIVING IN A BURNING HELL
Watching, waiting, absorbing you, absorbingyou
Someday I will lay my hand upon you
And you will scream my name SCREAM MY NAME
Someday I will lay my hand down upon you
And you will scream my name
I AM THE DEVIL A PERFECT CIRCLE
I AM THE DEVIL A PERFECT CIRCLE
BURN!!
Watching, waiting, I was born alone and I'lldie alone
I WAS BORN ALONE AND I'LL DIE ALONE
I WAS BORN ALONE AND I'LL DIE ALONE
I WAS BORN ALONE AND I'LL DIE ALONE
I WAS BORN ALONE AND I'LL DIE DIE DIE
Man is flawed, man is weak, destiny is to proceed
Rat shall rise, snake will shine, beasts inheritthe earth
Only death, only hate, only death!
I AM THE DEVIL A PERFECT CIRCLE
I WAS BORN ALONE AND I'LL DIE ALONE