25:14 But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the desert to greet 1 our lord, but he screamed at them. 25:15 These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together 2 in the field. 25:16 Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks. 25:17 Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. 3 He is such a wicked person 4 that no one tells him anything!”
25:18 So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers 5 of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs 6 of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys 25:19 and said to her servants, “Go on ahead of me. I will come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
1 tn Heb “bless.”
2 tn Heb “all the days we walked about with them when we were.”
3 tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”
4 tn Heb “he is a son of worthlessness.”
5 tn Heb “skins.”
6 sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.