16 They were a wall to us both night and day, all the days we were with them keeping the sheep.
17 And so then, know and consider what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his household, and he is such a wicked man, nobody can reason with him!”
18 Then Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put them on the donkeys.
19 Then she said to her servants, “Go ahead before me; look, I am coming after you,” but she did not tell her husband Nabal.
20 And then, as she was riding on the donkey and was going down the ravine of the mountain, David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she met them.
21 Now David had said, “Surely in vain I guarded all that this fellow had in the desert. And nothing was missed of all that was his, but he returned evil against me in place of good!
22 May God severely punish the enemies of David and again do thus if I leave behind anything that is his until the morning, not even one male!”