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!"
23. When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and fell facedown before him, bowing low to the ground.
24. She fell at his feet and said, "Put the blame on me, my master! But please let me, your servant, speak to you directly. Please listen to what your servant has to say.
25. Please, my master, pay no attention to this despicable man Nabal. He’s exactly what his name says he is! His name means fool, and he is foolish! But I myself, your servant, didn’t see the young men that you, my master, sent.