17. Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.’
18. Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
19. Then she told her servants, ‘Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.’ But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
20. As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending towards her, and she met them.