^{18 Ref} Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

^{19 Ref} And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

^{20 Ref} And it was so, as she rode on her ass, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.

^{21 Ref} Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath returned me evil for good.

^{22 Ref} God do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light so much as one man-child.