15. Yet they were very good to us; they never bothered us, and all the time we were with them in the fields, nothing that belonged to us was stolen.
16. They protected us day and night the whole time we were with them looking after our flocks.
17. Please think this over and decide what to do. This could be disastrous for our master and all his family. He is so pigheaded that he won't listen to anybody!”
18. Abigail quickly collected 200 loaves of bread, two leather bags full of wine, five roasted sheep, seventeen kilogrammes of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and 200 cakes of dried figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
19. Then she said to the servants, “You go on ahead and I will follow you.” But she said nothing to her husband.
20. She was riding her donkey round a bend on a hillside when suddenly she met David and his men coming towards her.
21. David had been thinking, “Why did I ever protect that fellow's property out here in the wilderness? Not a thing that belonged to him was stolen, and this is how he pays me back for the help I gave him!
22. May God strike me dead if I don't kill every last one of those men before morning!”