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1 SAMUEL 25:12

So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings. ...

1 SAMUEL 25:13

And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff. ...

1 SAMUEL 25:14

# But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them. ...

1 SAMUEL 25:15

But the men [were] very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields: ...

1 SAMUEL 25:16

They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. ...

1 SAMUEL 25:17

Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he [is such] a son of Belial, that [a man] cannot speak to him. ...

1 SAMUEL 25:18

# 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. ...

1 SAMUEL 25:19

And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal. ...

1 SAMUEL 25:20

And it was [so, as] she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them. ...

1 SAMUEL 25:21

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. ...

1 SAMUEL 25:22

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. ...

1 SAMUEL 25:23

And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, ...