^{18 Ref} Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.

^{19 Ref} And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.

^{20 Ref} Now while she was going down under cover of the mountain on her ass, David and his men came down against her, and suddenly she came face to face with them.

^{21 Ref} Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.

^{22 Ref} May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living.