blondie, how could you treat Abigail so shabbily? You just mentioned her name without even giving a brief description. Abigail blasts Watchtower's misogynistic, subject-to-husbands treatment of women to pieces!
1. She corrected David - not just a male but the anointed of Jehovah, no less!
2. She brazenly disregarded the headship of her husband Nabal. She knew that her husband didn't want to provide provisions to David and his men, but instead of supporting his decision she defied it by showing them charity.
3. She spoke disparagingly of her husband to David, calling him foolish.
4. She rubbed her defiance of her husband in his face by telling him what she had done when he bacame sober.
Abigail shows that the headship arrangement is not as absolute as the Watchtower would have the sisters believe. If a wife knows her husband is making a bad decision she does not have to support him in doing it.
Beyond that, it teaches that those in authority - or those who claim to have authority (read: governing body) - do not deserve unquestioning obedience and submission. It is the course of prudence to refuse to go along with any directions from them that are clearly wrong.
