13. Then David said to his soldiers, "All of you, strap on your swords!" So each of them strapped on their swords, and David did the same. Nearly four hundred men went up with David. Two hundred men remained back with the supplies.
14. One of Nabal’s servants told his wife Abigail, "David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he just yelled at them.
15. But the men were very good to us and didn’t mistreat us. Nothing of ours went missing the whole time we were out with them in the fields.
16. In fact, the whole time we were with them, watching our sheep, they were a protective wall around us both night and day.
17. Think about that and see what you can do, because trouble is coming for our master and his whole household. But he’s such a despicable person no one can speak to him."
18. Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep ready for cooking, five seahs of roasted grain, one hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes. She loaded all this on donkeys
19. and told her servants, "Go on ahead of me. I’ll be right behind you." But she didn’t tell her husband Nabal.