2-3. There was a man of the clan of Caleb named Nabal, who was from the town of Maon, and who owned land near the town of Carmel. He was a very rich man, the owner of 3,000 sheep and 1,000 goats. His wife Abigail was beautiful and intelligent, but he was a mean, bad-tempered man.Nabal was shearing his sheep in Carmel,
18. Abigail quickly collected 200 loaves of bread, two leather bags full of wine, five roasted sheep, seventeen kilogrammes of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and 200 cakes of dried figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
19. Then she said to the servants, “You go on ahead and I will follow you.” But she said nothing to her husband.
20. She was riding her donkey round a bend on a hillside when suddenly she met David and his men coming towards her.
21. David had been thinking, “Why did I ever protect that fellow's property out here in the wilderness? Not a thing that belonged to him was stolen, and this is how he pays me back for the help I gave him!
22. May God strike me dead if I don't kill every last one of those men before morning!”
23. When Abigail saw David, she quickly dismounted and threw herself on the ground
24. at David's feet, and said to him, “Please, sir, listen to me! Let me take the blame.