on the third day, behold, it happened that a man came from Saul's camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head. So it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the ground and prostrated himself.

As soon as the lad had gone, David arose from [a] place toward the south, fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another; and they wept together, but David more so.

Now when Abigail saw David, she hastened to dismount from the donkey, fell on her face before David, and bowed down to the ground.

Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"

Then the king said to her, "What is troubling you?" And she answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

Because I delivered the poor who cried out, The fatherless and [the one who] had no helper.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; My justice [was] like a robe and a turban.

"Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, 'Get justice for me from my adversary.'

'yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.' "