14. One of Nabal’s servants told his wife Abigail, "David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he just yelled at them.
15. But the men were very good to us and didn’t mistreat us. Nothing of ours went missing the whole time we were out with them in the fields.
16. In fact, the whole time we were with them, watching our sheep, they were a protective wall around us both night and day.
17. Think about that and see what you can do, because trouble is coming for our master and his whole household. But he’s such a despicable person no one can speak to him."
18. Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep ready for cooking, five seahs of roasted grain, one hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes. She loaded all this on donkeys
19. and told her servants, "Go on ahead of me. I’ll be right behind you." But she didn’t tell her husband Nabal.
20. As she was riding her donkey, going down a trail on the hillside, David and his soldiers appeared, descending toward her, and she met up with them.
21. David had just been saying, "What a waste of time—guarding all this man’s stuff in the wilderness so that nothing of his went missing! He has repaid me evil instead of good!
22. May God deal harshly with me, David, and worse still if I leave alive even one single one who urinates on a wall belonging to him come morning!"