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18 Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five seahs of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
19 She said to her young men, Go on before me; I am following you. But she didn't tell her husband, Nabal.
20 As she rode on her donkey and came down in a valley, and there were David and his men coming down towards her, and she met them.
21 Now David had said, Surely for nothing I have kept all this fellow's possessions in the wilderness, so that nothing was missing. He has returned me evil for good.
22 God deal with David severely, if I leave alive one man of his by the morning.
23 When Abigail saw David she hurried and alighted from her donkey; she bowed down before David with her face to the ground.
24 She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.
25 Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.
26 »the LORD kept you from spilling innocent blood and from getting a victory by your own efforts. As the LORD lives and you live, may your enemies and those who are trying to harm you end up like Nabal.
27 Let this gift which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.
28 Please forgive the offense of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make a strong dynasty for your majesty, for your majesty is fighting the LORD's battles. May evil not be found in you for all of your life.
29 And though men have risen up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. And the souls of your enemies, them he will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
30 When the LORD does for your majesty all the good that he promised concerning you and appoints you commander-in-chief over Israel,
31 then this will not be on your conscience, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.
32 David said to Abigail: "Blessed is the LORD the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me.
33 and your discretion is blessed and you are blessed, who have kept me this day from blood guiltiness and from avenging myself with my own hand.
34 For as surely as the LORD God of Israel lives, the one who restrained me from harming you indeed, had you not quickly come to meet me, by dawn there wouldn't be a single male left to Nabal."
35 Then David accepted what she brought him. He said: "Go home in peace. I have listened to what you said and I grant your request."