1 Samuel 25:18-22

New American Standard Bible

Abigail Intercedes

¹⁸ Then Abigail hurried and ^(A)took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine, and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain, and a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and she loaded them on donkeys. ¹⁹ Then she said to her young men, “^(B)Go on ahead of me; behold, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal. ²⁰ And it happened as she was riding on her donkey and coming down by the hidden part of the mountain, that behold, David and his men were coming down toward her; so she met them. ²¹ Now David had said, “It is certainly for nothing that I have guarded everything that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing has gone missing of all that belonged to him! For he has ^(C)returned me evil for good. ^22 (D)May God do so to the enemies of David, and more so, ^(E)if by morning I leave alive as much as one ^[a]male of any who belong to him.”