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In the book of Samuel, Abigail was the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. The book says that David married her after Nabal's death. The Book of Chronicles, which is known to have been a modified, later rewrite of the Deuteronomic History (Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 Kings) agrees with Samuel, but also makes it seem that David was married to his full sister.

1 Chronicles 2:13-16 says that David's sister was Abigail, then Chronicles 3:1 commences a genealogy, with Abigail his second wife. These are the only two Abigails in the entire Bible, so it is implausible that David simply married the only known woman in all Hebrew history to have the same name as his own sister. It is surely more likely that the Chronicler used a convenient name as that of the sister, but overlooked the consequences that would become apparent when a more systematic analysis of The Bible became possible. No one called Abigail was really a sister of David.

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A:There is an extensive story of King David in the Deuteronomic History (1 Samuel from chapter 16, 2 Samuel and 1 Kings to 2:10) and a somewhat different story of King David in 1 Chronicles. The most famous story of King David, in which he slays the Philistine giant, Goliath, is in the Deuteronomic History at 1 Samuel chapter 17. The First Book of Chronicles, written later and apparently dependent on the Deuteronomist History, makes no mention of David killing Goliath, even though the History presents this at the most important single feat leading to David being accepted as a potential king.The Book of Chronicles makes it seem that David was married to his full sister. 1 Chron 2:13-16 says that David's sister was Abigail, while 3:1 commences a genealogy, with Abigail his second wife. These are the only two Abigails in the entire Bible, so it is implausible that David simply married the only known woman in all Hebrew history to have the same name as his sister. If the Chronicler did not intend to portray David as having married his own sister, then this must be expalined as occurring because the Chronicler used an invented name on two occasions, but overlooked the consequences because of the complexity of the family trees scattered through the book.The Deuteronomic History contains a lengthy diversion about David's son, Absalom, an uprising led by Sheba, the son of Bichri, and a number of attempted coups. Bath-Sheba, the mother of Solomon, asked the bed-ridden and dying King David to make her son king after him. 1 Chronicles omits all this material, and has King David, while still in apparent good health and not yet bed-ridden, announce to the people of Israel that God had chosen Solomon to be his heir.


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At the time of David surnames did not exist. They are a relatively modern addition.

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