In reply to by KeyWester

David is said to have married Ahinoam before he married Abigail, therefore would have taken her with him when first fleeing Saul. If David was in his late teens or early twenties, roughly the same age as Johnatha, then Ahinoam would have been in her early thirties. Certainly young enough to have further children by David. As a matter of interest, Michal was a daughter of Ahinoam and Saul, which means that David had possibly taken to wife both mother and daughter. A practice not only banned in Leviticus, but possibly the greatest insult David could publicly demonstrate to Saul. Which could help explain Saul's unrelenting hatred and pursuit of David.

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