28. Please forgive me if I say a little more. The Lord will always protect you and your family, because you fight for him. I pray that you won't ever do anything evil as long as you live.
29. The Lord your God will keep you safe when your enemies try to kill you. But he will snatch away their lives quicker than you can throw a stone from a sling.
30. The Lord has promised to do many good things for you, even to make you the ruler of Israel. The Lord will keep his promises to you,
31. and now your conscience will be clear, because you won't be guilty of taking revenge and killing innocent people.When the Lord does all those good things for you, please remember me.
32. David told her:I praise the Lord God of Israel! He must have sent you to meet me today.
33. And you should also be praised. Your good sense kept me from taking revenge and killing innocent people.
34. If you hadn't come to meet me so quickly, every man and boy in Nabal's family and in his servants' families would have been killed by morning. I swear by the living Lord God of Israel who protected you that this is the truth.
35. David accepted the food Abigail had brought. “Don't worry,” he said. “You can go home now. I'll do what you asked.”
36. Abigail went back home and found Nabal throwing a party fit for a king. He was very drunk and feeling good, so she didn't tell him anything that night.
37. But when he sobered up the next morning, Abigail told him everything that had happened. Nabal had a heart attack, and he lay in bed as still as a stone.
38. Ten days later, the Lord took his life.
39-40. David heard that Nabal had died. “I praise the Lord!” David said. “He has judged Nabal guilty for insulting me. The Lord kept me from doing anything wrong, and he made sure that Nabal hurt only himself with his own evil.”Abigail was still at Carmel. So David sent messengers to ask her if she would marry him.