15. And the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we companied with them, when we were in the fields.
16. They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them feeding the sheep.
17. And now know and consider what thou wilt do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household; and he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.
18. And Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skin-bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred raisin-cakes, and two hundred fig-cakes, and laid them on asses.
19. And she said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
20. And as she was riding on the ass, and coming down by the covert of the hill, behold, David and his men came down opposite to her; and she met them.
21. Now David had said, Surely, in vain have I kept all that this man had in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that was his; and he has requited me evil for good.
22. So and more also do God to the enemies of David, if I leave of all that is his by the morning light any male.
23. And when Abigail saw David, she hasted and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
24. and fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let the iniquity be; but let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear the words of thy handmaid.