20. As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending towards her, and she met them.
21. David had just said, ‘It’s been useless – all my watching over this fellow’s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.
22. May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!’
23. When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.
24. She fell at his feet and said: ‘Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say.