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16 (A)They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them shepherding the sheep. 17 So now, know and see what you should do, for evil is decided against our master and against all his household; and he is such a [a]vile man that no one can speak to him.”

Abigail’s Discernment

18 Then Abigail hurried and (B)took two hundred loaves of bread and two [b]jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and [c]five seahs of roasted grain and one hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:17 Lit son of Belial
  2. 1 Samuel 25:18 Heb is similar to Nabal
  3. 1 Samuel 25:18 Approx. 35 qt. or 38.5 l, a seah was approx. 7 qt. or 7.7 l