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Ask your servants and they will tell you so. Look kindly on these young men, since we come at a festival time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can manage.'" (1 Samuel 25, 8)
When David's young men arrived, they delivered this message fully to Nabal in David's name, and then waited. (1 Samuel 25, 9)
But Nabal answered the servants of David: "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? Nowadays there are many servants who run away from their masters. (1 Samuel 25, 10)
So David's young men retraced their steps and on their return reported to him all that had been said. (1 Samuel 25, 12)
Thereupon David said to his men, "Let everyone gird on his sword." And so everyone, David included, girded on his sword. About four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage. (1 Samuel 25, 13)
But Nabal's wife Abigail was informed of this by one of the servants, who said: "David sent messengers from the desert to greet our master, but he flew at them screaming. (1 Samuel 25, 14)
As she came down through a mountain defile riding on an ass, David and his men were also coming down from the opposite direction. When she met them, (1 Samuel 25, 20)
David had just been saying: "Indeed, it was in vain that I guarded all this man's possessions in the desert, so that he missed nothing. He has repaid good with evil. (1 Samuel 25, 21)
May God do thus and so to David, if by morning I leave a single male alive among all those who belong to him." (1 Samuel 25, 22)
As soon as Abigail saw David, she dismounted quickly from the ass and, falling prostrate on the ground before David, did him homage. (1 Samuel 25, 23)
David said to Abigail: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today. (1 Samuel 25, 32)
David then took from her what she had brought him and said to her: "Go up to your home in peace! See, I have granted your request as a personal favor." (1 Samuel 25, 35)
