16. We were taking care of our sheep near them. During that time, they were like a wall around us night and day. They kept us safe.
17. "Now think it over. See what you can do. Horrible trouble will soon come to our master and his whole family. He's such an evil man that no one can even talk to him."
18. Abigail didn't waste any time. She got 200 loaves of bread and two bottles of wine. The bottles were made out of animal skins. She got five sheep that were ready to be cooked. She got a bushel of grain that had been cooked. She got 100 raisin cakes. And she got 200 cakes of pressed figs. She loaded all of it on the backs of donkeys.
19. Then she told her servants, "Go on ahead. I'll follow you." But she didn't tell her husband Nabal about it.
20. Abigail rode her donkey into a mountain valley. There she saw David and his men. They were coming down toward her.