^{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 corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

^{19 Ref} And she said unto her servants, 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 the ass, that she came down by the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against 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 requited me evil for good.

^{22 Ref} So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.