Verse 18
ABIGAIL MOVES TO APPEASE DAVID'S ANGER
"Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. And she said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal. And as she rode on the ass and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them. Now David had said, "Surely, in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good. God do so to David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him."
"But she did not tell her husband" (1 Samuel 25:19). Nabal might have been still drunk; and if not, he would have prevented anything that Abigail planned to do.
"She came down ... David and his men came down toward her" (1 Samuel 25:20). This meeting between David and Abigail occurred in a valley, for both came `down' to the meeting place.
(See under 1 Samuel 25:13, above, for discussion of 1 Samuel 25:22.)
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