17. He's a bully who won't listen to anyone.Isn't there something you can do? Please think of something! Or else our master and his family and everyone who works for him are all doomed.
18. Abigail quickly got together two hundred loaves of bread, two large clay jars of wine, the meat from five sheep, a large sack of roasted grain, a hundred handfuls of raisins, and two hundred handfuls of dried figs. She loaded all the food on donkeys
19. and told her servants, “Take this on ahead, and I'll catch up with you.” She didn't tell her husband Nabal what she was doing.
20. Abigail was riding her donkey on the path that led around the hillside, when suddenly she met David and his men heading straight at her.
21. David had just been saying, “I wasted my time guarding Nabal's things in the desert and keeping them from being stolen! I was good to him, and now he pays me back with insults.
22. I swear that by morning, there won't be a man or boy left from his family or his servants' families. I pray that God will punish me if I don't do it!”
23. Abigail quickly got off her donkey and bowed down in front of David.