1 Samuel 25:14-20

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.

25:20 Riding on her donkey, she went down under cover of the mountain. David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she encountered them.

[25:14]  ¹ tn Heb “bless.”

[25:15]  ² tn Heb “all the days we walked about with them when we were.”

[25:17]  ³ tn Heb “all his house” (so ASV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “his whole family.”

[25:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “he is a son of worthlessness.”

[25:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “skins.”

[25:18]  ⁵ sn The seah was a dry measure equal to one-third of an ephah, or not quite eleven quarts.