16. they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17. Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a worthless fellow, that one cannot speak to him.
18. Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
19. And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
20. And it was so, as she rode on her ass, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.
21. Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.
22. God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one man-child.
23. And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and alighted from her ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.