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|1 Samuel 25:14|
One of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail: “David sent messengers from the desert to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them.
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15
|1 Samuel 25:15|
Yet these men were very good to us. They did not ill-treat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing.
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16
|1 Samuel 25:16|
Night and day they were a wall around us all the time we were herding our sheep near them.
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17
|1 Samuel 25:17|
Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no-one can talk to him.”
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18
|1 Samuel 25:18|
Abigail lost no time. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs [That is, probably about a bushel (about 37 litres)] of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
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19
|1 Samuel 25:19|
Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
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20
|1 Samuel 25:20|
As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending towards her, and she met them.
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21
|1 Samuel 25:21|
David had just said, “It’s been useless — all my watching over this fellow’s property in the desert so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good.
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22
|1 Samuel 25:22|
May God deal with David, [Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew with David’s enemies] be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”
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|1 Samuel 25:23|
When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground.
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