1 Samuel 25:18-31

18Then Abigail hurried and 1took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine, and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain, and a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and she loaded them on donkeys. 19Then she said to her young men, “2Go on ahead of me; behold, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal. 20And it happened as she was riding on her donkey and coming down by the hidden part of the mountain, that behold, David and his men were coming down toward her; so she met them. 21Now David had said, “It is certainly for nothing that I have guarded everything that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing has gone missing of all that belonged to him! For he has 3returned me evil for good. 224May God do so to the enemies of David, and more so, 5if by morning I leave alive as much as one 6male of any who belong to him.”

23When Abigail saw David, she hurried and dismounted from her donkey, and fell on her face in front of David 7and bowed herself to the ground. 24She fell at his feet and said, “On me 8alone, my lord, be the blame. And please let your slave speak 9to you, and listen to the words of your slave. 25Please do not let my lord 10pay attention to this 11worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. 12Nabal is his name, and stupidity is with him; but I your slave did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

26“Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, since the Lord has restrained you from 13shedding blood, and 14from 15avenging yourself by your own hand, now then, 16may your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be like Nabal. 27And now let 17this 18gift which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who 19accompany my lord. 28Please forgive 20the offense of your slave; for 21the Lord will certainly make for my lord an 22enduring house, because my lord is 23fighting the battles of the Lord, and 24evil will not be found in you all your days. 29Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your 25life, then the 26life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; but the 27lives of your enemies 28He will sling out 29as from the hollow of a sling. 30And when the Lord does for my lord in accordance with all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and 30appoints you ruler over Israel, 31this will not become an obstacle to you, or a 31troubled heart to my lord, both by having shed blood without cause and by my lord’s having 32avenged himself. 33When the Lord deals well with my lord, then remember your slave.”