1 Samuel 25 tells the story of Abigail. I am wondering whether or not it would be a good idea to give a summary of the story. I think I will.
David is being pursued by Saul who wants to kill him, and David, perhaps out of food and necessities to live by, sends some of his men to go ask for help from Nabal. David’s men had been good and kind towards the men who were taking care of Nabal’s sheep and David thinks that Nabal would be glad to now have the opportunity to repay that kindness. Nabal, however, answers unkindly and sends the men away. This makes David very angry and he sets out with, by all appearances, the intention of a murder spree. Abigail, Nabal’s wife, gets to hear of how Nabal had treated David’s men, and she quickly sets out with provisions to meet David who she must have heard was on his way to their home. When they meet, she pays him homage, and speaks very wisely to David, pleading with him not to avenge himself with his own hands. She clearly makes David see the sense he was unable to because of his anger.
Verse 32: And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand!”
Abigail saves David from committing a sin he would have regretted.
This isn’t what Eve did who, in Genesis 3:6 “… took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”, embroils Adam in her sin.
Just as David was so glad for Abigail saving him, and just as Adam blamed his disobedience on the ‘woman who God gave him’, it seems to me that many men would really be glad to have an Abigail in their lives, just as they would resent having Eve.