¹⁸ Then Abigail made haste and ^(A)took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five seahs of roasted grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys. ¹⁹ And she said to her servants, ^(B)“Go on before me; see, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

²⁰ So it was, as she rode on the donkey, that she went down under cover of the hill; and there were David and his men, coming down toward her, and she met them. ²¹ Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him. And he has ^(C)repaid me evil for good. ^22 (D)May God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I ^(E)leave ^(F)one male of all who belong to him by morning light.”

²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, ^(A)as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, since the Lord has ^(B)held you back from coming to bloodshed and from ^(C)avenging^[a] yourself with your own hand, now then, ^(D)let your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal. ²⁷ And now ^(E)this present which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.