Abigail Warns David No Blood-Guilt at Night in Midrash Shmuel

"And let this not be to you a stumbling block" (1 Samuel 25, there [verse 31]). Rabbi Levi had this section [as the subject of his lecture], and Rabbi Ze'ira sent his disciple to hear it: what is "and let this not be to you a stumbling block" — "no" and "not"? He said to him: there are myriads [of interpretations] in the Aggadah. [David] came to couple with her. She said to him: "Your end is not to fail through another woman? Is it not better for you with one and not with two?" Rabbi Elazar said: there were doubtful matters there. She said to him: "Beware of the stumbling-block of the soul." Since he did not heed her, she brought out her menstrual stains and showed them to him at night. Abigail said to him: "And is it [the way] that one inspects stains at night?" He said to her: "And is it [the way] that one judges capital cases at night?" He said to her: "His judgment was already concluded while it was yet day, for he rebelled against the kingdom." She said to him: "And are you a king?" He said to her: "And did not Samuel anoint me?" She said to him: "Even though Samuel anointed you, the coinage of Saul still stands, and your coinage has not yet gone forth into the world." When he heard her words, he began to praise her: "And blessed be your discernment, and blessed are you" etc. (there, there [verse 33]). "From coming into blood-guilt" (there) — [meaning] from two [kinds of] blood: from the blood of menstruation and from the shedding of blood (and from robbery). "And remember your handmaid" (1 Samuel 25, 31) — Rabbi Yitzchak said: a verse that lowers you and removes your cry; because she set her eyes upon him while she was [yet] a married woman, therefore Scripture blemished her: "Abigail" — the second [time] it is written "Abigal."