17. Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.”
18. Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
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 rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.
21. Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good.
22. God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”
23. When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground.
24. She fell at his feet and said, “On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.
25. Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
26. Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
27. And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.