This custom is suggested by a number of other texts as well (2 Samuel 12:8; 16:20–22; and 1 Kings 2:13–25). See Jon Levenson, “I Samuel 25 as Literature and History,” Catholic Bible Quarterly, 40 (1978), pp. 11–28; Jon Levenson & Baruch Halpern, “The Political Import of David’s Marriages,” Journal of Biblical Literature 99 (1980), pp. 507–519; Matitiahu Tsevat, “Marriage and Monarchical Legitimacy in Ugarit and Israel,” Journal of Semitic Studies 3 (1958), pp. 237–243.