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Summary
1 Samuel 25:18 - 25:19 -25:20 - 25:21 - 25:22 - 25:23 - 25:24 - 25:25

25:18. Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two vessels of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of dry figs, and laid them upon asses:

25:19. And she said to her servants: Go before me: behold, I will follow after you: but she told not her husband, Nabal.

25:20. And when she had gotten upon an ass, and was coming down to the foot of the mountain, David and his men came down over against her, and she met them.

25:21. And David said: Truly in vain have I kept all that belonged to this fellow in the wilderness, and nothing was lost of all that pertained unto him: and he has returned me evil for good.

25:22. May God do so and so, and add more to the foes of David, if I leave any male of all that belong to him till the morning!

If I leave, etc. . .David certainly sinned in his designs against Nabal and his family, as he himself was afterwards sensible, when he blessed God for hindering him from executing the revenge he had proposed.

25:23. And when Abigail saw David, she made haste and lighted off the ass, and fell before David, on her face, and adored upon the ground.

25:24. And she fell at his feet, and said: Upon me let this iniquity be, my lord: let your handmaid speak, I beseech you, in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.

25:25. Let not my lord the king, I pray you, regard this naughty man, Nabal: for according to his name, he is a fool, and folly is with him: but I, your handmaid, did not see your servants, my lord, whom you sentest.