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Farningham, M., Women and Their Work, 87.
Horton, R. F., Women of the Old Testament (1898), 175.
Keil-Delitzsch, Commentary on the Books of Samuel (1866), 238.
Krummacher, F. W., David, the King of Israel, 168.
Lewis, H. E., in Women of the Bible: Rebekah to Priscilla (1904), 95.
Mackay, W. M., Bible Types of Modern Women (1912), 16.
Meyer, F. B., David (1910), 112.
Miller, T. E., Portraits of Women of the Bible (1910), 130.
Oosterzee, J. J. van, The Year of Salvation, ii. 445.
Smith, J. D., The Brides of Scripture (1913), 92.
Spurgeon, C. H., Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, li. (1905), No. 2924.
Taylor, W. M., David, King of Israel (1894), 121.
Christian Age, xxix. (1886) 163 (T. de W. Talmage).
Christian World Pulpit, xxi. (1882) 51 (G. T. Coster); lv. (1899) 108 (J. S. Maver).
How admirable and wonderful is the skill of the Biblical narrative which in so brief a compass, by the slightest nail-impressions upon the plastic material, contrives to convey to us a complete portrait of this instructive character. Here is the plot of a fine romance-a story told in a few minutes, which an ingenious author might spin out with unflagging interest into a volume. Where writing is so condensed and significant, reading should be careful and meditative. For the writer trusts to the imagination and reflection of the reader to work out the hints that he has given. A wise Bible student will meditate upon the story and the persons, until all their detailed beauty, and all their implicit lessons, unfold themselves before him. Abigail is the most attractive woman in the histories of the Old Testament.