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close to him. Abigail affirmed David as a man. She showed him great honor by her words
and actions. David’s heart was drawn to the inner beauty of this woman’s life, and he
proposed marriage to her.

I Samuel 25:40-42
When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying,
"David has sent us to you to take you as his wife." She arose and bowed with her face
to the ground and said, "Behold, your maidservant is a maid to wash the feet of my
lord's servants." Then Abigail quickly arose, and rode on a donkey, with her five
maidens who attended her; and she followed the messengers of David and became
his wife.

There are many women today who would describe Abigail’s attitude in a very
unflattering way, yet she was demonstrating great godliness. In her comment, “Behold, your
maidservant is a maid to wash the feet of my lord’s servants” she was expressing the height
of love. She was proclaiming that she would lay down her own soul life with its ambitions
and desires that she might seek the welfare and benefit of others. It is questionable whether
she spent much time actually washing people’s feet, for she had five maidens of her own to
attend to her, and later she lived as the wife of the king in the king’s palace. She was
expressing her heart attitude, however. She was not entering into a marriage relationship
with David to get out of it what she could. Instead she was seeking to give of herself.

Consider the description God has given to us of the end of this vile woman.

II Kings 9:31-37
As Jehu entered the gate, [Jezebel] said, "Is it well, Zimri, your master's murderer?"
Then he lifted up his face to the window and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" And
two or three officials looked down at him. He said, "Throw her down." So they threw
her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and
he trampled her under foot. When he came in, he ate and drank; and he said, "See
now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king's daughter." They went to
bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the
palms of her hands. Therefore they returned and told him. And he said, "This is the
word of Yahweh, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, "In the
property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; and the corpse of Jezebel
will be as dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say,
"This is Jezebel."'"

In this end we see how greatly despised the spirit of Jezebel is to Yahweh. God turned
her into dog dung to be spread unceremoniously upon the fields of Israel. Sisters in Christ,
is it not expedient that you recognize both that which is displeasing, as well as that which
is pleasing to God? Do you see the parable in the words above? Jehu says, “See now to this
cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.” If you are born again of the Spirit
of Christ, you too are a King’s daughter. God, however, is no respecter of persons. Each will
be recompensed according to what they have done. Those daughters of the King who walk
in the spirit of Jezebel will be condemned by God. Because they exalted themselves, refused
to take the low position, to serve their husbands and wash the feet of the disciples of Christ,