^{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 one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

^{19 Ref} She said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she didn't tell her husband, Nabal.

^{20 Ref} It was so, as she rode on her donkey, 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 has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him: and he has returned me evil for good.

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