1 Samuel
Chapters 25:17-23
Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version
17Nabal was foolish to say what he did. Terrible trouble is coming to our master and all his family. You need to think of something to do.”
18Abigail quickly gathered up 200 loaves of bread, two full wine bags, five cooked sheep, about a bushel of cooked grain, about 2 quarts of raisins, and 200 cakes of pressed figs. She put them on donkeys.
19Then Abigail told her servants, “Go on. I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband.
20Abigail rode her donkey down to the other side of the mountain. She met David and his men coming from the other direction.
21David was saying, “I protected Nabal’s property in the desert. I made sure not one of his sheep was missing. I did all that for nothing. I was good to him, but he was rude to me.
22I swear, I won’t let even one man in Nabal’s family live until tomorrow morning.”
23Just then Abigail arrived. When she saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down with her face to the ground in front of him.